Speeches like last night disturb me

I watched the speech last night that President Obama gave in front of our leading government officials and to the entire nation and was not comforted by it one bit. I really disdain these types of speeches even when the giver of the speech is a conservative like myself. Now don't misunderstand what I am about to say. I am thankful I was born in American and am still proud when I stand to honor our country every time our national anthem is sung. But speeches like last night in that type of forum reminds me how arrogant and prideful we often are as a country. It also reminds me how hypocritical we are as we hide the real truths about ourselves and replace them with false deceptive ideas.
I believe one of the things that has made our country great in the past is the theological believes that our nation was founded upon. But today many have traded their trust in a living and Almighty God to a government that cannot deliver what they promise. Even the conservative response to the president's speech last night stated that we should not put our faith in the government, then when on to say we need to put our faith in the people of the United States. Neither of these two groups can deliver what we need.
What do we need? We do not need what we deserve, because with all the greed, corruption, and ungodliness in our nation, what we deserve is judgement. And judgement may be what God is bringing to our nation in the way of this so called economic downturn. I heard a preacher say once that "If God does not judge America for her sins as a nation then He will need to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah for how He judged them." No we do not need to ask God for justice we need to ask Him for mercy and grace. We need to humble ourselves as individuals and as a nation and ask God to reveal our sins to us then repent and seek forgiveness from Him. The Bible says "God resisted the proud but giveth grace to the humble." God also says in His word that "If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves,and pray and seek My face , and turn from their wicked ways , then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land"
It saddens me how so many people want to do everything they can to take God out of every area of our nation yet our leaders have the gall to state at the end of every important speech "May God Bless America!" What hypocrisy !!
I believe in a Sovereign God who is in complete control of everything that goes on in our nation and the world. Today I am even more confident in Him as I see the very things that the Word of God has predicted about the last days come to past. We have major problems in our nation and world that will not be solved until God sets up His own kingdom on this earth. I am going to continue to trust Him as He is the only one powerful enough to solve all these problems. I hope that is who your faith is in as well. Lord Bless!

Day Nine

Today is day nine of my diet. I have gone low carb no sugar with out much problem.until today. No I did not blow it yet! It is just that today is the first day where I have been craving some of my favorite junk food snacks or an order of fries with a dollar sweet tea to wash them down. I have just got through eating a great salad Benita made and I am feeling satisfied right now. This diet came about after our trip to Florida. No we did not really over do it there just finally realized how miserable I felt carrying around the extra weight I have put on recently. Also pictures like the one I posted at the right was a motivating factor to get back where I was a few short years ago. One other factor is my impending return to work next week. I will be working a lot of overtime and driving another 3 hours a day and I realized I needed to be in better shape to complete the 8 week job I will be on. So day nine is about over and I hopee day 10 goes back to how the first 8 went. We will see.

No NOT ANOTHER SNOW STORM!

The forecast for here tomorrow is snow in the morning .. snowing all day ...with 3 to 6 inches expected! I have heard many Michiganders say this is the worst winter they can remember and I tend to agree with them. So much for Al Gore' Global Warming THEORY! The other thing that has made this winter so bad is the flu that is ravishing the members of our church. So many of our church members have had it and sometimes they have had it more than once. March is only a week away and that is a welcome thought. Although we still get some snow during that month at least we know that it is all coming to an end soon. LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW!!!!

Florida and Fireproof

We are in day 5 of our stay in Florida and still looking for that warm up we know is coming. Hopefully today will be the first day we can get rid of our sweatshirts. The cool weather of course does not bother us much as we are not beach people and we are really down here to see our family more than trying to escape from the frozen tundra in Michigan. We are glad to hear that it is warming up at home today to a balmy 48 degrees or so. We of course would not be disappointed if all the snow is melted by the time we come home on Friday.
Last night we all watched the movie Fireproof that Benita bought before we left. We enjoyed the spiritual emphasis to the movie and would recommend it to others to watch. Here is a link if you would like to learn more about it.

http://www.christiancinema.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2154&s_kwcid=fireproof%20movie|2419054046&gclid=CIjF1cPAypgCFQZeswod4Vws1g