The Way It Is! Conclusion

The Way It Is! Conclusion
Brad Reiches
Oct 25 2006 10:57PM

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
GodThoughtsWired!

"THE WAY IT IS!"
ONE OF SATAN'S BEST KEPT SECRETS

Conclusion

"Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people."

Proverbs 14:34

 

"Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might, and let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boast, boast in this; that he knows Me (God)..." (see Jeremiah 9:23-24).    The Bible teaches us that "the way it is" for every individual and/or country is that our destiny is determined by our relationship with God.  Hope in military might is false hope.  Dependence upon human wisdom is folly.  Trust in our own abilities is temporal at best.

The "Way It Is" is that righteousness exalts a nation.  "Righteousness" as defined by a right relationship with God.  "Right," according to the Bible.  Such was the case for the first several decades of America.  "The Way It Is" is that The United States of America was "Built and established in righteousness," and, as such, it became the greatest, most successful and prosperous nation the world has ever known.  "The righteous will be rewarded with prosperity" (Proverbs 13:21). 

"The Way It Is" is that "A throne is established on righteousness...Loyalty and truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness" (see Proverbs 16:12: 20:28; see also 25:5).  But it's not just kings and countries that we're talking about here.  "The Way It Is" is that,

"In righteousness YOU! will be established."
Isaiah 54:14 (caps & emphasis, mine)

 You see, the problem with America is not the sad reality that, many years ago, prayer was taken out of schools. 

 

The problem with America is that

righteousness is being taken out of churches!

How did this happen?  Why is this happening?  It is precisely as the Bible warned so many years ago, "Certain persons have crept in unnoticed...ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ" (Jude 4).

Nonetheless, our Bible remains unchanging, "The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous" (1 Peter 3:12).  WITHOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD! (see Hebrews 12:14).

Denying "the way it is" will NEVER CHANGE...

The way it is.