How’d I Get Here?

“It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded.” Ecclesiastes 6:4 (NIV)

Anger equals evil.

It took me a year and some time to complete my study of the Book of Jeremiah, in the Old Testament. When I undertake a study from any book in the Bible, I try to place it not only in its faith-based context, but historical and real-world context.

For that reason, I found myself in December at a place so angry within myself that I lashed out at everyone on my Facebook page. It was the wrong thing to have done.

I realized, albeit too late, that everything I was gleaning from Jeremiah wasn’t about me or anyone else in my life – either personally or in cyberspace.

Following my ‘blow up,’ I stopped blogging my political opinions, whether nationally or locally. There was something in me that said it was a good thing to do and so I did and furthermore, I am not planning to return to that subject anytime soon.

Instead, I am going to share some of my notes on the Book of Jeremiah. This will happen over several weeks or maybe months – I don’t know.

What happens to this country isn’t up to me; it’s not even up to the leadership of this nation. Instead, it is up to God and how our relationship as a people is viewed by Him.

Call me crazy, but let’s get started with Jeremiah 1:6.

“I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.”

Over the course of the last few decades, the U.S. has slowly been erasing God from our national culture. No longer are children allowed to pray in school, in some places the “One nation under God,” is even struck from the Pledge of Allegiance, and finally after lawsuit after lawsuit, the U.S. struck a coin for circulation without the words, “In God We Trust,” on it.

Instead of God, we worship our federal, state, regional and city leaders. We praise the newest technology and the people who brought it to us and we eat our meals without saying grace.

My conclusion: We have forsaken God and he is judging us – the U.S.