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Angered over rank hypocrisy

Commentary forwarded by to OSA

NOTE: Sarah Walston is a precious young woman who has been a Christian less than a year and we marvel at how she is so consumed with God's love. May God keep Sarah's zeal strong and increase it as she grows in the Lord Jesus! How sad that so many allow the flaming torch of our first love to dim until we accomplish little earthly good for our Lord Jesus. Below Sarah's commentary is another one (just added) written by Pastor Chuck Kelly.

Angered over rank hypocrisy

I'm sorry but I'm angry.

Every time I hear a politician, a news reporter, an Army official, a member of the President's cabinet utter the words "We should pray to God for help today." -- it makes my skin crawl.

It's infuriating. They want to live in this world and run this country based on the left agenda, they want to have complete disregard for God's Laws and the saving blood of the only One Jesus Christ. They mock Him in our schools, on our streets, in our workforce, in Congress and even in the White House .... but now, all of a sudden when things go terribly wrong they want to cry out to God for help. It makes me sick. And it makes me angry.

The only prayer my lips can utter today is "Jesus come quickly."

Sarah Walston

Forwarded by Rusty Thomas


What then should they do?

"I noticed your commentary by Sarah Walston. Perhaps everything she said was true. It is hypocritical what America has done in their efforts to remove themselves from God's sovereignty and to reject His word and to live contrary to it. But in time of trouble where should we want America to go but to God? Isn't this exactly what Israel did time and time again in the Old Testament? Shouldn't we want America to see their need for God and repent?

I suppose I may be reading into Sarah's opening statement but most of the time when someone says "I am sorry but..." they are not sorry at all. We should be glad that America turns to God in her time of need instead of hardening her heart any further than it is. Shouldn't we as Christians be careful that we do not turn away the unbeliever, scoffer and mocker because we are angry that they want to turn to God.? Jonah resented the fact that God would spare those who lived in Ninevah. He knew God would be willing to do this before it happened. He resented that fact that God would give the Ninevites an opportunity to repent. He was angry with God when God spared them when they turned to Him.

Jonah 4:1-4
"But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. He prayed to the Lord, "O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. Now, O Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."
But the Lord replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"

While it is true that they may go back to their own ways when things settle down but then they are judged for that. We must be careful that we do not misrepresent God as Moses did in the wilderness and represent God as unwilling to receive them. Does God reject anyone who will turn to Him? What has happened is a terrible tragedy but it is also a great opportunity for us to share Jesus Christ with a confused and frightened America. We must guard our own hearts from anger and bitterness or it will quench the work of the Holy Spirit by grieving Him with our own unforgiveness.

Ephesians 4:30-32
"And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you."

Looking towards heaven until He comes....

Chuck Kelly

Pastor, Calvary Chapel of Bullhead City