Ezekiel 27 -- All About US?

“… On the day your ship was wrecked.”  I couldn’t help but think of America as I read this.  “When the goods you traded went out over the seas, you met the needs of many nations… But now you are broken … and have sunk to the bottom…  The traders among the nations hiss at you.  You have come to a terrible end, and you are gone forever.”

I don’t want that last sentence to become true.

Ezekiel was speaking God’s word against Tyre, the New York City of its day.  God had already announced that the very foundations of their buildings would be scraped away and fishermen would dry their nets there.  It was unimaginable that Tyre’s destruction could ever occur, yet God’s word never fails, and it is gone today.

So what about America?  We’ve been toned down and softened up in our misguided efforts to accommodate a worldview that denies God and that hides under the term “multiculturalism”.  It seems that it’s unpatriotic to be proud to be an American anymore.  Instead, we’re told we have to apologize for everything we do and have done and in doing so we weaken the very fabric of who we are and Whose we are.  We seem to be trying to be liked by a world that despises us.  This ruse attempts to destroy us from within rather than from without.  The same thing that happened to Tyre and Jerusalem can happen to us.

Father, wake up America.  Turn us back to You.  Keep us from thinking we have to apologize for being Christian.  Help us to stand up to the evil in this world rather than embracing it.  Draw us back to You.

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford