Well… here we go… the election is over.

Now what?

I tell you the truth I woke up this morning with mixed emotions… in one moment I thought vindictively… in another moment I thought downtroddenly… in another moment I thought expectantly… in other I thought hopefully… but at the end of it all I thought on God’s sovereignty.

I close my eyes and I see the 2012 election map I see that the heart of our nation is red…

 

The heart of our nation still stands on morality and the value of life and the fear of God. The blue is all on the surrounding outside… I look at this picture and I can’t help but see it as a reflection of the majority of the hearts of the American Church.

 So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD

And remove the foreskins of your heart,

Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Or else My wrath will go forth like fire

And burn with none to quench it,

Because of the evil of your deeds.

Jeremiah 4:4

 

I wonder how many of us really humbled ourselves and sought forgiveness of our sins and turned our face toward heaven? How many of us are really willing to circumcise our hearts.

As we look at these blue states what do we see…  We see California represented by Hollywood. We see Nevada represented by “Sin City”. We see New York represented by Wall Street and Letterman and Broadway. We see Massachusetts represented by  the promotion of Homosexual Marriage. We see Washington DC represented by the fight to keep abortion legal and profitable. We see Connecticut represented by “Higher Education” that is dead set on abolishing all acknowledgment of God in American education.

So now I wonder as an American Christian… how many of these above do we support through our own life choices?

How many of us need to circumcise our heart?

What would happen if the American Christian stopped going to the movies, cancelled all their HBO, Cinemax  Showtime package, stopped watching Letterman, stopped going to Vegas, pulled all their money out of the stock market and put it in the lives of the people of their community, pulled all their children out of the public school system and placed them in private Christian schools, and stopped using birth control in order to birth and raise up more God fearing children in our nation?

I have to say that like Matt I also am excited… in a weird kind of way.

I wonder what God is up to… because I know He is always up to something.

Today I know that no matter what the future of America might be I will keep teaching the Word and going out and making as many disciples as Christ allows me to make. And if one day this nation tries to shut me up and stop me from preaching the gospel then I will rejoice for the privilege to suffer for His sake because just like Matt said, light shines its brightest in the darkness.

 

They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them

and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus,

and then released them. 

So they went on their way from the presence of the Council,

rejoicing that they had been considered worthy

to suffer shame for His name. 

And every day, in the temple and from house to house,

they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

Acts 5:40-42