The Tragic End to a Once-Great Nation!

Most every day we turn on the news only to find another major tragedy has befallen our nation. Do you ever look at the America we live in today and think back to the America that was leading the world in triumph in the late 1940s and 50s and wonder, “What happened?” How could such a great nation fall to such a tragic end in such a short time?

It began in 1963 with a systematic removal of God from America. In that year, prayer was deemed unconstitutional in the America’s classrooms and quickly removed. While George Washington had declared that: “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible,” the powers-that-be decided otherwise.

Roughly ten years later, America’s power-that-be decided that freedom to live as one so desired was more important than a human life and abortion became legal. Since that time our nation has systematically murdered over 65 million of our own children. The mindset began to develop that human life is not that important so the taking of other human lives became an acceptable practice.

The fallout from all of this is revealed in the situation we now find ourselves in: streets filled with chaos and murder; broken homes filled with violence; terror coming at us from all directions. Why? America became self-servers. The Godly ideals and principles that had once held us up strong were obliterated from our society in the name of unconstitutionality! Abraham Lincoln warned of this crisis when he said: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

The removal of God from the classroom has resulted in the removal of God from our nation. We arrived at the place to where we deemed it as acceptable for a sitting president to have an affair in our White House, lie about it and get away with it. It is interesting to note that our nation was subsequently rocked by a major terror attack, but no one took notice of God’s warning. Then, to intensify our failure before God, our nation twice elected a man to be our president who was in affiliation with those who brazenly attacked our nation—and continue to do so!

What a tragic end to such a great nation! Hebrews 10:31 tells us: “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!” Our nation has cast itself into the hands of the living God to be judged for our blatant, willful disregard of all that we once held in high regard.

But, the greatest tragedy in all this is the fact that the church sat back and allowed all this to happen. For so many years, the church sat back praying that God would deliver us from the evil that was overcoming our nation. The church, which at the time encompassed a huge majority of the population, did little to hinder or stop the removal of prayer. The church did little or nothing to stop the systematic murder of our innocent babies. And today, we are reaping the rewards for those decisions by what has become of our once-great nation.

The great failure came when the church fell silent and in essence failed to fulfill the command of God to: “Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed. Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy” (Proverbs 31:8-9 HCSB). Is there any hope left for our once-great nation? Only by the mercy of God being poured out upon a truly repentant people! But, will that happen? Only you can decide!