America is in a spiritual spiral. Christians seem to chase their tails when it comes to changing the moral decline in America. It appears that America does not care about a relationship with its Creator who bestowed the freedoms that has brought more light and hope to this dark world than any other country in history. What’s the problem? Better yet, what is the solution? I am a believer in the transforming power of Jesus Christ through the indwelling Presence of the Holy Spirit. The solution to America’s problem is so obvious that most Christian’s may not see. Why do Christians want people of the world to understand God’s Word? They can’t! For the redeemed reading this, they will understand. The unredeemed reading this will scoff. Scripture says “1Co 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees that which he has never seen before; a part of him knows which he never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate. He knows now in a deep and authoritative way, and what he knows needs no reasoned proof. His experience of knowing is above reason, immediate, perfectly convincing and inwardly satisfying. “A man can receive nothing.” That is the burden of the Bible. Whatever men may think of human reason, God takes a low view of it...1Co 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? “The inability of human reason as an organ of Divine Knowledge arises not from its own weakness but from its unfittedness for the task by its own nature. It was not given as an organ by which to know God.” Tozer It takes the Holy Spirit to unlock the Book! He who reads simply with the eye of the intellect will miss the glory of the Book, and will never realize the soul food with which it is stored. It is well to ask the Light and blessing of the Holy Spirit upon us each time we read. America does not need another man to change the moral temperature of the country; it needs the Christians to seek to minister to the empty souls of its countrymen. As an example, consider this. Pornography enslaves millions in America. To change this moral depravity is not found in government regulation but is found in showing people Jesus. If Jesus changes the hearts of the pornography seeking people, then the pornography industry will be out of business. Christians understand this but the enslaved cannot. Let us seek to lift Jesus up and allow Him to transform lives instead of trying to reason with the lost!
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