A Burr Under My Saddle

I have had a burr under my saddle ever since the presidential election. No, my candidate did not win but that is not the burr. I am more concerned with what I saw in our country. More states legalized homosexual marriages. Wisconsin voted in the first openly gay Senator in Tammy Baldwin. One hundred-twenty one other gay or lesbian candidates were voted into various offices across the country. Our country as much as ever has not only turned her back on God but openly embraced sin.

With all the talk about homosexuality you would think gay and lesbians make up a significant portion of our population. I researched this and found that only 4% of the United States population is homosexual. That means that 96% of the population is not but most of these are silent or have been fooled into believing homosexuality is larger segment of our society than it really is. The 4% are making noise forcing their sinful lifestyles down our throats. Television sitcoms almost always have a gay character and now openly gay couples on their shows. The homosexual agenda is everywhere.

We have programming called "The New Normal", "The Modern Family", and "Happily Divorced" just to name a few. The silent majority sit back content to let the vocal minority take over everything in society. They seek to reeducate the way we think, react, live, and what we find offensive and tolerable. If you see, hear, and watch enough gay and lesbian activity you begin to think it is normal. Not according to the Bible, [Rom 1:18-28] [I Tim 1:8-10] [I Cor 6:9-11] [Lev 18:22] [Lev 18:29] It is abnormal.

Yet our country continues to promote this sin and readily embrace it. I realize I am and will always be considered intolerant. I am not with the times. I am marching to the beat of a different drummer than our society. I continue to wonder how deeply we have offended God. He destroyed Sodom for such wickedness [Gen 19] and other nations have fallen as well. Rome seemed invincible at one point. History tells us the tragic story of a nation who embraced debauchery and self indulgence. While doing some research I found a fact that men often paid as much as $1,000 in our currency for young boys for their sexual pleasures while caviare sold for only $300. There is something really disturbing about that fact.

Why don't the rest of the 96% take a stand and make their voices heard. Now the Boy Scouts are getting banned from sponsors because they do not include gays. When will the people of God ever wake up, stand up, and speak up? What is it going to take?

Our nation is on a collision course with the judgment and wrath of God. It has happened before. Look at Israel's history. It will happen again. Nations have come and gone but God alone has ruled supremely. There is a burr under my saddle and I am not going to sit by contentedly while my children get robbed of the truth in their minds. I am not going to sit by idly while our nation commits suicide on a course of rebellion and defiance against the laws of God.

Only repentance and a heaven sent revival can save this nation. I once read a book by Leonard Ravenhill titled America is Too Young to Die.  He wrote the book in 1979. He saw the writing on the wall thirty-three years ago. He called for the church and nation to repent of sin. What would he think if he could see things today. He is long gone but I wonder who is the prophet today sounding the warning. Maybe that is my role. I will do what I can where I am with what He has entrusted to me.