America & the Gap

America is becoming a spiritual cesspool. This once-“Christian” nation has embraced spiritual relativity, where right and wrong are situational. It has chosen tolerance as a motto, claiming that Jesus is only one way to God instead of THE Way.

People chase after every type of evil imaginable. Slave trade is one of the fastest growing industries in the country, with most of it geared toward sex commerce. Pornography is a billion-dollar a year business. Greed is the backbone of our capitalistic economy. Hatred and murder are daily occurrences, giving newscasters and Hollywood producers fodder for their film.

•   Truth has become a fleeting spectral image, not even Ghostbusters can capture.
• Justice is a word thrown out by anyone who doesn’t feel they’re getting what they deserve – even when they have done nothing deserving.
• And the American way has become a wide, straight highway that leads to destruction.

But what about God’s church in America?

The divorce rate among Christians is the same as that of non-Christians. Churches are suing pastors and vice versa.  They spend millions of dollars on beautiful buildings for their own meetings, while giving pennies to the poor. They claim love, but judge and gossip and hate.

What must God be thinking? He described another nation that sounded very similar in Ezekiel 22:23-31.

Again the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.’ There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’—when the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

It is a sad picture, but if we were to continue to read, the story goes downhill. In verse thirty, God said, “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.” There was no one to stand between the people and God. “So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done,” declares the Sovereign LORD (verse 31).

If God were talking about America, could He find anyone? Will you stand in the gap, interceding for America? Will you stand for your kids, so they can see real Christianity? Will you build the wall, preserving the people? 

If not you and I, then who?