Trusting the Mercies of GOD

I Fall On The Mercies of GOD

There is a story at the end of the book of 2 Samuel wherein King David has sinned a great sin (one that Christians in America are guilty of today) and he is given choices;

            24:13.   So Gad came to David, and told him,

 and said unto him,

            Shall seven years of famine come unto 

thee in thy land?

             or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies,

            while they pursue thee?

             or that there be three days’ pestilence 

in thy land?  now advise,

            and see what answer I shall return to 

him that sent me.

 24:14.   And David said unto Gad,

            I am in a great strait:

            let us fall now into the hand of the LORD;

            for his mercies are great:

            and let me not fall into the hand of man.

As an American Christian, I find myself in the same spot. Given three choices of who should lead the nation to it's destruction, given the choice of the lesser of three evils, I find that I am want to simply fall on my face before the LORD and trust in HIS mercies. I can see no hope for America in any  candidate.

Christians, for many years now, have put their faith in their numbers. Having lost all contact with the truth of the GOD we serve, we have taken what GOD has given us and put our faith in it. Now, as if all of a sudden, Christians who have their faith in their numbers and there census, are discovering that they do not have any real power. Just as David set out to number the people to know his power and position, Christians have done the same and are now reaping the reward just as David did.

The Christian church has never recovered the truth of GOD ever since Rome made the church part of the government. To this day, the leaders of the church still act and teach as if our strength is in the numbers we have been given and not in the one who gave us those numbers. Our efforts to control sin and sinners by force of law has resulted in a rebellion against that law, as has always been throughout  the history of man.

And so, because of human wisdom, and human teachings, faith and trust is put in human governments and human efforts to do what only GOD can do. What only GOD is in control of. This is a blindness that overtaken the most fervent of Bible scholars and has lead even the most pious of men to choose evil. Choosing the lesser of three evils is still choosing evil. This doesn't have to be;

JESUS set down a plan that is perfect. I worked well for the followers of CHRIST. In fact, they overcame the Roman empire by following the plan, and they started with only twelve.

Today, we have nearly 40% of the population that claims to be Christians. We could actually embrace the radical notion of returning to the ways of JESUS and stop following the ways of man. We could actually embrace wisdom from GOD and reject human wisdom in its weaker and inconsistent form.

We live in a nation where the government reflects the society. The one power GOD has given man to change a society is the spread of the gospel and the saving of souls. The one power GOD has given man to change a society is for the members of that society to be changed from the inside, one at a time. The wisdom of GOD takes into account the power of sin and Satan, the nature of a fallen world and fallen man, and it counts on the power of GOD to change that nature. We as Christians need to refrain from being lead by human logic and human wisdom and we need to learn to walk by faith and not by sight. We need to learn to trust in the LORD in all our ways and not lean on our own understanding.

There is only one hope for America and the world, that is that the church will return to its one and only objective, to build the kingdom of GOD.  

Let me add on here; I have, many different times and different ways, tried to explain why our faith in government and leaders and laws has resulted in our eventual demise. The scriptures tell us that if you put your faith in man you will be disappointed. But that is not the whole of it.

We have added to the plan of JESUS aspects that weaken the plan and strengthen Satan and sin. We have, by adding to the plan, claimed to know better than JESUS. As many times as I showed this to my Christian brethren, they cannot comprehend letting go of a man made system of ideals and ideas and wisdom. But, GOD is not one to reward original thought. For one reason, it is never original. If it is not from HIM, it is from Satan and Satan knew that the government that was established for America would eventually fail because the righteousness of the people would eventually fail because the righteousness of the church would eventually fail. Because the righteousness of the church is based in absolute trust in GOD and a willingness to follow HIS ways, and only HIS ways, despite what human wisdom might teach to the contrary. Walking by faith and not by sight is hard to do. 

It is hard to imagine that if every Christian in America were to fall on their face before GOD, not go to the polls, not vote for an evil, leave the decision fully in the hands of GOD  (Intentionally, as an act of trust, even though it always is in HIS hands) and return to the simple focus of kingdom work, that GOD would fix the mess. Even though there is clearly no other hope, Christians still can't let go and let GOD. Christians still can't trust in the plan JESUS set down, and leave the plans and systems of men behind in a huge leap of faith. And so, despite all our claims to the contrary, we do not trust in the promises of GOD. We do not trust in the plans and ways of JESUS. We only trust in what we can see and what we feel and what we can do in our own power and that is something that makes Satan very happy.