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Land of the Free?
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I read in the local paper that one out of 100 American adults is in
prison. One in 36 Hispanics are in prison and 1 in 15 black adults are
also. Here is the real kicker one in nine black men between the ages of
20 and 34 are incarcerated also. The statistics are astounding, and it
gets a lot worse, think about the different times that judges and
governors (Huckaby for one) and presidents (Clinton) released groups of
prisoners. If you add in the ones that haven't been apprehended yet and
still running around free, the thought comes to me. What has happened
to America?
Now, we can blame it all on racism,
racial profiling or that the judges are too strict. Also 90% of the
prisoners would say they are not guilty. I would dare say that it is
because of the choices that the American people have made over the
years. We have just set back and let the politically correct leaders
take over. In our haste not to offend anyone, we have taken GOD out of
our lives. Over the years we have let Judges and the media tell us what
is right. I saw a revival of spiritual zeal right after the 9/11
terrorists attacks when the American people thought that the Muslims
were out to destroy us. Now, 50% or more of the American people don't
think that there is a threat at all. There is also a group of
individuals that have so much hatred in their heart that they even
believe it was all a hoax, set up by the government and President Bush.
I have said all this to bring us to this point. We have to get back to
GOD! As GOD has been taken out of our lives, the American people have
lost their fear and a reverence toward GOD.
After King Solomon built the LORDS house and the LORD accepted it, the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto
him, I have heard thy prayer.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
We
are all a prisoner of this society and the only way that we will be
free is through Jesus Christ and His love for us. Is America the land
of the free or are we prisoners to a society that gives us no hope. I
know that God will change America if we humble ourselves and pray, I
also know that if we let God work in our lives, then America will truly
be the land of the free.
Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge:
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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