America's Fun House

When I was a child living in Oklahoma City, there was a small amusement park called Spring Lake.  My favorite attraction was the Fun House.  Today while I was praying for America, I was reminded of it.

 

At the entrance of the Fun House there was a set of steps that moved back and forth horizontally as you attempted to climb them.  You might feel as though you were walking a straight path up the steps but in actuality your path was zigzagged and unbalanced, just like the path of many American Christians today.  They believe that they are walking the Christian walk, when in fact they are taking a deceptively crooked path.  Actions offensive to God, such as premarital sex, adultery and pornography have become so commonplace and accessible, that some Christians think these behaviors are the new norm.  Isaiah 26:7. The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

 

Once you manage to climb the fun house steps you gingerly go forward into a very large barrel which rotates as you attempt to walk through it.  Up feels like down and down feels like up.  Everything seems topsy turvy.  America has become confused as to what is up and what is down.  Abortion of an innocent baby is considered acceptable to many, yet the death penalty of a convicted murderer is cause for outrage.  Television show producers are quick to poke fun at Christians even to the point of mocking Jesus, yet rarely speak negatively of Muslims and Buddhists and Atheists because of their desire to appear ‘politically correct’ and ‘tolerant”.  However, somehow Christianity, unlike any other religious or non-religious group is exempt from the media and Hollywood’s efforts to appear ‘tolerant’ and is fair game to poke fun at and to ridicule.  Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter

 

If you make it through the rotating barrel, then you arrive at the house of mirrors where reflections are distorted.  Proponents of the new ‘transgender’ wave, tell us that when we look at a transgender female, she is not a female but a male, and vice versa.  We are told by society not to believe our own eyes, but to believe what is wrong as though it were right.   And if we object, we are again labeled as not politically correct.  Another translation of Isaiah 5:20 reads  “They say that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.”

 

Did you make it through the house of mirrors?  Great.  Now you are nearly done.  Just a small patch of wooden uneven undulating boards.  Be careful, because some of the boards move like waves and shoot out a powerful gust of wind when stepped on. Avoid those.  Ephesians 4:14 Then we will no longer be little children, tossed and carried about by all kinds of teachings that change like the wind. We will no longer be influenced by people who use cunning and clever strategies to lead us astray.

 

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the Fun House.  Did you come out unscathed or did you fall into sin and sinful thinking along the way?  Thank God for his mercy, because even if you did fall into some of Satan’s traps and tricks along the way, if you kept your faith, by God’s grace you are forgiven.  Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God

 

The very last step is to exit the Fun House.  There is only one exit, an unlit hole in the wall where a long slide waits in the darkness.  Grab a burlap sack, fling yourself out into the darkness, trusting that there is a light at the end.  John 1:5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

 

10/25/17

by Kristy Dewberry

Is America falling from Gods Grace

The following is a message my wife received while she was spending her daily alone time with Jesus.  I believe this message is for America, and something Americans need to hear so I am posting this here.         

·         While I was praying this morning this is what I feel God spoke to me.

People in America, both Christians and non-Christians, have lost or distorted their sense of shame.  Adultery, sex before marriage, homosexuality and transgender issues are becoming socially acceptable to the point that no shame is felt.  The only shame we feel regarding these sins, is not the shame of committing sexual sins, but the shame of ‘judging’ others for committing sexual sin.  Even the Christians who commit sexual sin, do not feel the shame they should.  They feel that since God has forgiven both future and past sins, they do not need to feel shame.  Thank the Lord that he has forgiven our sins, both past and future, but God is saddened when his children choose to forget his will for them.

Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

We are not to be conformed to this world.  The will of God is good and acceptable and perfect.  We should strive to be as God-like as we can be.  If and when we fail, we should feel shame and acknowledge to him that we know we have disappointed him.  Then, knowing that he has forgiven our sins already and that he redeems our life from the pit, we can continue on our path to righteousness, until our next stumble.

When she told me this message, Romans 1 immediately came to mind, so I’ve posted that scripture here.

Romans 1:16-32  King James Version (KJV)

¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁷ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

²⁷ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

³¹ Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.