Responding To Correction

, 23but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. 24But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. 25From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. 26But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.’

27“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. 28Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips. Jeremiah 7:23-28
Here in Jeremiah are some sad words because God spent a period of time trying to correct his people but they would not listen.  When they came out of Egypt God promised them, obey my laws that it may go well with thee in the land God gave to him.  But they did not follow God's precepts. Thye followed other gods. If you do not follow God, you have set up another god in your life someplace. It may be you yourself are that God. Whatever you are putting before God is your god. When God the sovereign God tries to correct us are we listening? We live in an age where we are asking God to get out of our lives as a nation. We the remnant who believe and are still following must not give up. Often God has taken a small number to bring his victory.  When we left Egypt, when we got saved have we followed God's precepts, his rules, his ways, his commands? I look back on a time in my life when I looked a lot like the pre-Christians around me. I was very carnal. Knowing the word but living like the world around me. I was going backward not forward. We are calling evil good and good evil today in our nation. There should not be a Christian alive that is supporting a party that took God out of their party's platform. A party that is promoting so many things that are contrary to God's word.  We must not look at an imperfect candidate for one mistake where he said something in private to one individual. Look at what he has done over his life. I am talking about Trump. He did not continue in bad behavior to this present time. Some may want to compare him with Bill Clinton, but Bill continued his behavior all his life. It even looks like Bill was still taking trips with Epstein even into recent years.  Trump distanced himself from the same man and even uninvited Epstein to his places. Trump may not be a perfect man and we did not elect a national Pastor. He may say things we cringe at on almost a daily basis but look at the things he is doing for our country. I can live with his attitude, with his personality. He is rich but his whole life he didn't fit in with the elite of society.  He had more in common with the chauffers and workers he cam in contact with on the streets of New York City. Over and over his actions have shown that.  Over and over he has done things to support Christians. It is not that he has supported Christians to the courts, but men and women that support the constitution as written. He is not looking for activist judges to overturn anything, but just support the constitution that was set up by our forefathers. Our country is in trouble and we need to support Trump as long as he continues to do what is for the good of this country as it is.  We need to move forward not backward and Trump has been moving us forward one little step at a time. His action in Israel with building the Embassy in the capital, that is all it was just building the US embassy in the capital city. Other Presidents talked about it but he put it into action. Other presidents talked about our border security but he proceeded to build the wall. The IRS had been used as a weapon against conservatives, he put a stop to it. Are we responding to correction? Are we listening to God's commands and his ways? God has been trying to correct the US but are we responding?  Help us, God, to respond at the polls in this next election. Let us consider God's ways and God's truths in this next election. Abortion is one of the key battle lines that has been drawn by the other side. Abortion is a great evil and we must not support the party that supports abortion. It is wrong in the eyes of God. The removal of Roe VS Wade will not end abortion but send it back to the individual states, but it is a move in the right direction. Political correctness is not the same as godliness. It is more like godless. Sometimes it defies even common sense, like genderless bathrooms. As one liberal said there is no common sense, at least in the democratic party I believe he is right.  God bless, LVZ.