I don't know what's going on inside me. I'm in this perpetual state of weeping and mourning. At this very moment, I'm sitting here, in tears, crying over things I've never even thought about before!
I don't know how to explain it but I feel like I'm weeping for America and how lost it is. I think about the majority of pastors and evangelists that permeate the airwaves with their fan clubs of followers who are blind and being lead astray. I think about the money used to buy mansions and airplanes and Rolls Royces and Rolexes and my heart is aching because those things are not exaggerations but the very things these supposed men and women of God are using His money for!
God's Word and His commandments are being watered down and twisted into mere suggestions that don't need to be obeyed if they offend anyone or make them feel bad or unhappy. They preach a gospel of comfort and riches and the people accept it, knowing it's wrong! To them it's like a lie that, when told often enough, begins to sound like truth because enough people are believing it!
Entertainment and convenience and comfort all at the touch of a button. More, bigger, better, more, faster, flashier, more! Instant gratification is expected! So much so that microwaves are considered slow by today's standards and if we have to wait in line longer than a minute, we become indignant at someone else's thoughtless abuse of our time! "Move faster! Open more lanes! You're wasting my valuable time!" And make it all smaller and more compact so we can carry more of it around with us and pile more of it up in our over-sized homes! Other people, and God, have merely become a means to and end; but we don't realize it's going to be our own end!
Political correctness hasn't ensured the fair inclusion of everyone and their beliefs, it's outlawed the mention of God and given people the right to decide right and wrong for themselves. We outlaw God and then wonder where He is, and blame Him, for tragedies! People pick and choose what they like from the gospels as if choosing from a menu at a restaurant and disregard the rest because they don't want to eat it! Then they claim to be Christians when it never was God they believed in but themselves!
Jesus, the cross and salvation are being treated like an inappropriate children's fairy. Curse words are more acceptable than His holy name! The Father and Creator of absolutely everything, who, with one flare of His nostril, could obliterate all men for their wickedness at any time, is being used like an inanimate, abused, vending machine that today's church has rigged to give it's rewards at the push of a button, without having to pay the price! He's being treated as if He owes us! How long is He expected to endure this hatred and disrespect?
Where is the respect, honor, reverence, fear, worship and adoration that He's due? Can't people see that they're being given over to their greed, lusts and desires? Can they be so blind that they don't believe there's a price to be paid?
Oh, God, please forgive us. We are ignorant, selfish and drowning in our own sin! I am drowning in my own sin! Father I need Your mercy and Your forgiveness!
