I wrote this a few years ago while stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. I thought it worth repeating.
Something happened to me the other day that I’m having trouble with. I was driving on the boulevard and I noticed a car that passed me had a sign taped inside the back window. The sign simply said, God Bless America. Now I’ve seen, God knows, hundreds of such signs over the last few years. I’m sure you have too. No doubt the tragic events of September 11 have caused a lot of Americans to consider their own mortality and think perhaps a little more about God. As I drove behind that car the thought would not leave my mind. God Bless America. And then it hit me. Why should God Bless America? What have we done to deserve His blessing? A court in Indiana is trying their hardest to make it illegal to have a plaque with the ‘Ten Commandments’ posted in a Federal Court House, we already voted to take prayer out of public schools, our Supreme Court now permits ‘Abortion on Demand’ which has resulted in over a million abortions a year (over thirty million) since Roe vs. Wade. We have pornography rampant in movies and television. Americans don’t seem to care if their leaders have moral values, character or integrity (that has already been proven, twice). And now we have the audacity to ask, ‘God Bless America’.
If I were God I’d be rolling on some soft cloud laughing my sides out. As I continued to drive I thought about another incident. In Genesis, chapter 18, we read the account of how displeased God was with Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham begged the Lord not to destroy both towns. He said, “Lord, Are you going to destroy both the good and the evil”? And God said, “If you find just fifty good people, I will not destroy those towns”. You know what? Abraham could not find even fifty good people. He went back and brokered with the Lord; how about forty? He couldn’t find forty or thirty or ten. You know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you think Sodom and Gomorrah were worse off in their day than we are today?
God Bless America? Is there any Nation more blessed by God than America. And yet here we are, the strongest and richest nation in the world which also happens to have the highest divorce rate of any other nation in the world, where solemn vows and promises are made a joke of, where we spend more than four billion dollars a year on pets while forty thousand children and poor go to bed hungry every night. God Bless America? Why?
God Bless America? Where more children are born out of wedlock every year than anywhere else in the world. Where we spend over ten billion dollars on athletes and entertainers who lack moral convictions and are the saddest examples for our children and yet teachers, counselors, nurses and so many other professions that truly help our families are paid the most pitiful wages imaginable. God Bless America? Why?
God Bless America? Where homosexuality is accepted as an ‘alternate life style’ and where some states are enacting legislation that will allow same sex marriages. Well, I hope God does bless America. But for the life of me, I can’t understand why He would want to.
Something happened to me the other day that I’m having trouble with. I was driving on the boulevard and I noticed a car that passed me had a sign taped inside the back window. The sign simply said, God Bless America. Now I’ve seen, God knows, hundreds of such signs over the last few years. I’m sure you have too. No doubt the tragic events of September 11 have caused a lot of Americans to consider their own mortality and think perhaps a little more about God. As I drove behind that car the thought would not leave my mind. God Bless America. And then it hit me. Why should God Bless America? What have we done to deserve His blessing? A court in Indiana is trying their hardest to make it illegal to have a plaque with the ‘Ten Commandments’ posted in a Federal Court House, we already voted to take prayer out of public schools, our Supreme Court now permits ‘Abortion on Demand’ which has resulted in over a million abortions a year (over thirty million) since Roe vs. Wade. We have pornography rampant in movies and television. Americans don’t seem to care if their leaders have moral values, character or integrity (that has already been proven, twice). And now we have the audacity to ask, ‘God Bless America’.
If I were God I’d be rolling on some soft cloud laughing my sides out. As I continued to drive I thought about another incident. In Genesis, chapter 18, we read the account of how displeased God was with Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham begged the Lord not to destroy both towns. He said, “Lord, Are you going to destroy both the good and the evil”? And God said, “If you find just fifty good people, I will not destroy those towns”. You know what? Abraham could not find even fifty good people. He went back and brokered with the Lord; how about forty? He couldn’t find forty or thirty or ten. You know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you think Sodom and Gomorrah were worse off in their day than we are today?
God Bless America? Is there any Nation more blessed by God than America. And yet here we are, the strongest and richest nation in the world which also happens to have the highest divorce rate of any other nation in the world, where solemn vows and promises are made a joke of, where we spend more than four billion dollars a year on pets while forty thousand children and poor go to bed hungry every night. God Bless America? Why?
God Bless America? Where more children are born out of wedlock every year than anywhere else in the world. Where we spend over ten billion dollars on athletes and entertainers who lack moral convictions and are the saddest examples for our children and yet teachers, counselors, nurses and so many other professions that truly help our families are paid the most pitiful wages imaginable. God Bless America? Why?
God Bless America? Where homosexuality is accepted as an ‘alternate life style’ and where some states are enacting legislation that will allow same sex marriages. Well, I hope God does bless America. But for the life of me, I can’t understand why He would want to.
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