A Heart Problem.

Abraham Lincoln once stated that a house divided cannot stand. The United States of America has become a house divided. No longer are we "One Nation Under God" instead we have become a country of labels. We have become a nation of hyphenations and that has become all that we are worried about. We no longer look at each other as fellow countrymen but as members of "that group". We label ourselves and others as black, white, Christian, Muslim, Gay, Straight, Democrat or Republican. What happened to just being American?! That's what used to make this country great. We were a melting pot of cultures and religions. Now our nation has become a group of hateful, arrogant mudslingers. 

We live in a country where people scream in outrage when an animal is killed to save a child's life and yet every day babies are cut from their mother's womb and there is no outcry because it is seen as a woman's choice. We have presidential candidates who scream about gun control and call each other names while groups of citizens are killing each other in the streets. We continually send money and support to other countries and yet we have veterans who can't get the services they need to adjust to civilian life. We sue everyone for everything causing medical costs to skyrocket. There are protests about blacks not being represented in film and tv while people with disabilities continue to be left out completely. The film industry continues to make movies more and more violent while the tv industry continues to air disfunction everywhere. Old shows are removed because they display the Confederate Flag while others shows that use derogatory terms towards whites are still aired. 

The bottom line is that we have a heart problem in this country. We are so busy pointing fingers at each other that we have no time to look at what the real problem is. There is a God shaped hole in our country. We have turned away from the values and principles that once made this country great. We have taken God out of our schools and Christian values are continually mocked. No longer to we have a "greatest generation". Instead we have a group of people who have a sense of entitlement.  We as Christians are in the fight of our lives for our country. We, now more than ever, need to be praying for the leadership of this country and for its citizens. The coming election scares me to no end and I pray every day that God will be at work to bring HIS person to office. We need to pray for our country. We need to pray for our soldiers and our first responders. We need to pray for our leadership and most of all we need to pray for each other.