America's Idol

I recently came across the following anonymous quotation:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."-- Author Unknown

This statement pretty much summed up the source of my many months of frustrations….How could adult, informed voters possibly not see the huge mistake that voting for such a man could be?! He came from “nowhere”………had virtually no experience……..and talked a little too smoothly. He claimed to be an advocate for transparency, lower taxes, lower unemployment, less spending, ending lobbyist and union strongholds, and uniting the American people. As it turns out, those were all lies. But all one had to do was to pay attention to those whom he chose to associate with, the extreme leftist activities he had been involved with, the votes he cast in his short 183 days in congress, and those he might call mentors. (I would highly recommend “The Manchurian President”, just released, for a condensed shortcut to learning just where this man came from and who helped him get here.)

This is not the first time in history that God’s people have chosen an idol for themselves….a distraction from truth…..an escape from reality.
In chapter 32 of Exodus, the people that God had made covenant with, rescued through many miraculous signs and events from those that enslaved them, and had quite simply been left to rest while Moses met with God on Mt. Sinai, became paranoid and impatient. They had been favored by, loved by, led by, and rescued by Almighty God and for a time, lost sight of who they were and to whom they belonged. They made their own idols out of the gold that they wore. God’s punishment was harsh and swift.

God’s fingerprints are on the very beginnings of this great nation and all throughout its founding. Our ancestors and forefathers were Judeo-Christian and all founding documents for our country, as well as those for the individual states, include prayers and thanks to God, giving Him praise and credit for our many blessings.But this nation is paying a high price for its renouncement of our heritage and its mindless march into depravity. For a citizen to call themselves a Christian, a follower of our Christ, and to support someone to lead in our land that is in favor of enslaving men through entitlement, murdering babies inside mother’s wombs, and who would choose to ignore God’s laws to allow the debasement of holy marriage is just another sign of the decay that this country reeks of. Lying to his people, ignoring their constitution and their wishes, and debasing our country in the face of our enemies are daily events in our new reality. Endangering our security and delivering us into the hands of our enemies earned him a “peace prize” from the same entity that gave the most notorious violator of women’s rights, the nation of Iran, a seat on the committee for promoting women’s rights!! It seems that in the new reality we live in, down is now up, and wrong is now right.

Many call those suffering from the disease of progressivism and socialism, “Obama Zombies”. I have met people that claim to support this man but they can’t tell you anything about his policies, background, or where he stands on issues of importance to our nation. I know people that support him simply because of his skin color. (This, my fellow Americans, is racism in its purest form.)
To esteem a human and follow them so blindly, …someone that is contrary to all that is right about America, and the opposite of what we need in leadership in a Christian nation, is a form of idolatry.
For too many years moral decline and depravity have gone unchecked in this nation, and the rise of someone that is seen as a “savior” to hordes of dissatisfied, selfish, guilty, scared, treasonous, or elitist people may be God’s way of allowing consequences for us.
My hope and prayer is that it will be a wake-up call…..a revival…….and a call for God’s people in this nation to remove their heads from the sand and BE HIS CHURCH. The kind of emptiness that exists in humanity that allows our current situation is a cry for help. There are too many people in this “one nation under God” that do not know Him. There were too many people looking for a savior in the wrong place, and like the unknown author quoted above…………those people are the ones that our nation may not survive if Christ’s own do not give voice to His teachings. We can no longer be intimidated by ‘political correctness’, ‘persecution of Christians’, Hollywood, and the prince of this world.
America has put an idol in the place that our God belongs………what are we going to do about it?