God’s standards are more about the body than the soul. It’s not that the standards for your belief system are unimportant. God says life is sacred. Indeed, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. As much as our previous post on values involves the intangible, a discussion of standards is more about where lines are drawn and who holds the pen.
Satan attacks the body. The most contentious debate in our national dialogue deals with what we want to do with our own bodies. Satan encourages us to become as Gods and draw these lines for ourselves. Do we establish abortion as an acceptable standard for our culture? What about the “normalization” of homosexuality, legalization of drugs, unrestricted pornography, legalized prostitution, consensual incest, euthanasia of the elderly, and the ability to choose or move between these lifestyles that strike at the core stability of our culture and is Satan’s main point of attack—the family unit. Many of these issues made great strides under the previous administration. Consider the fact that we burned so much recent political discourse and capital just trying to figure out where people could go to the bathroom. Do you see what happens when we ignore God’s standards and draw lines for ourselves?
And yet Satan’s war aim for us is that we break relationship with and ignore God and choose death apart from God. If we don’t survive as a culture, will it matter more that we ignored God’s standards or the freedoms we enjoyed were widespread or the rights we created for ourselves led to greater personal expression?
Five years after our culture is taken away from us, will we be lamenting the things we enjoyed or trying to determine how we lost our culture that we might find it again? If the freedoms and rights we enjoyed as a culture are taken from us, will searching for and rededicating ourselves to live by certain standards help us to reestablish our cultural identity?
The standards by which we order ourselves have everything to do with our national survival and over time will prove to be more important to us than freedom itself.
But, for the current time, we are a nation drunk on freedom. We are so busy drawing lines for ourselves that even leftists can’t control what’s going on. Here in Colorado, years after approving recreational marijuana, the liberal Governor just told us that we have to find more ways to control it. He can’t. It is already out of control.
Sadly, at some point during the new president’s term, we will encounter war. Why does this idea suddenly surprise you? War can come to our nation at any time, and has, regardless of who occupies the White House. And, this will not be a conflict that you and I can “phone in.” We will all be involved. We have been set up for this by previous administrations’ foreign policies, and sadly, the advent of the new government will not dissuade an irrational rogue nation-state from thinking they’ve finally “got us.”
How will we respond? Even our military force structure has been tinkered with in some cases, to the point of placing personal preferences ahead of the mission. Because of this, our military will gain the ultimate advantage in this war, but at a much greater cost.
Of late, the nation has not taken kindly to a war where there have been great losses. Some of us will ask ourselves, “Could that loss of life have been mitigated by both the military and the opulent republic it served adhering to standards greater than the ones we drew for ourselves?” Before I let go of this, know that I predicted this war some time ago and it would have been visited on us regardless of who takes office tomorrow. I wasn’t happy with either candidate for many reasons, if not this very one.
You may have thought this post was about God’s standards and not about a war that threatens our national survival. To me, they are one and the same. Whatever we are today, we were once a Christian nation, positioned squarely in Satan’s crosshairs. To have a national leader declare that we are “no longer a Christian nation,” does not remove us from those crosshairs. Do you really think we can convince Satan not to fire his weapons at us? Simply reflect on this notion: What is peace without God? Well, it’s certainly not peace.
As for me, I tell people that I’m not much for drawing lines for the culture. If a line is required, why wouldn’t you let God draw it?
Consider these thoughts as if our nation’s future survival is at stake. Because, it is. You see, God’s standards are more about the body than the soul. If not God’s standards, then there are none.