A Dry and Thirsty Land

     We are living in a dry and thirsty land with no predictions of rain in the coming week. Our economy is not good either with the stock market unpredictable and banks paying very little interest on savings- we are living in a dry and thirsty land.  There is disharmony among the people with controversy over prayer in public schools and other places, controversy over being able to even post the Ten Commandments, controversy over same sex marriage, controversy over pro-life choice- we are living in a dry and thirsty land.  God told Moses in Leviticus 26 that if His people would walk in His statues and keep His commandments He would give them rain in due season.  He would give them peace in the land, and they would prosper.  The question is, “Will America wake up and follow God’s commandments and prosper?  Will they come together as “One Nation Under God?  Or will we  fall?”

Leviticus 26: 3-17

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; ⁴Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ⁵And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. ⁶And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. ⁷And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ⁸And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ⁹For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. ¹¹And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. ¹²And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. ¹³I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. ¹⁴But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: ¹⁶I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
    
     America has been blessed by God since it's beginning.  It has always been my belief that America was placed here for the honor and glory of God.  God has blessed us because of our being a Christian nation and because of our treatment of the Jew.  Our departure from God did not happen overnight nor in a dramatic turning away from Him.  Gradually, we substituted things in place of our allegiance to God.  Many of the things that were substituted may have been good in it's own sense.  However, you must recognize that sometimes the enemy of the best can be something of lesser value but still good..  In the midst of this crazy mixed up world we need the blessings of God if we are to stay the course and right the ship.