Posted by
grad_1986 on Sunday, September 05, 2010 2:45:58 PM
I remember from the movie "The Blind Side" the phrase "Don't worry... I got your back" was used multiple times throughout the movie. While watching an episode of "Ice Road Truckers" I listened to a trucker who was driving through a blizzard over frozen ice talked about the role of his faith in his driving that God was looking out for him. Essentially God "had his back".
Last week on 8/28 we witnessed a rebirth of faith in God at the Restoring Honor Rally. Faith has been so undermined in this country over the past 50 years, that we have lost our reliance on God having our backside. This has been done so as to make the people rely on the government when things go bad. Nothing more illustrates this than what happened after Hurricane Katina. While there were some stories of heroism and self-reliance, they were far and few between. Instead people congregrated and waited for help to come from the government. And then when it didn't come in the time they expected, they rioted and self-destructed. The question was not "Where was God?" the question was "Where was George Bush?". Some say we should change "In God We Trust" with "In Big Government We Trust". But I think that is starting to change. I think people of FAITH are not taking it on the chin anymore and are showing themselves once again in the public square which is encouraging. What I think we need to show is that our FAITH is a BENEFIT and not a drawback in our lives. Just as the truck driver who was driving on frozen lakes in a blizzard showed that his faith that God was looking out for him enabled him to do his job to the best of his ability. The idea that God is there for you and has your back allows you focus on what you are doing and have a positive outlook for the future. Do you think the founding fathers could think they could take on the world's greatest military power if they didn't have FAITH in God and that he would be there for them? Really?
FAITH is the belief in things hoped for, in things yet to be. It's not wishful thinking. It's simple trust that God is true to his word. Recently I lost my father who had suffered that past year from ongoing Alzheimers and Parkinson's disease. I know my father's FAITH was strong and he knew his sin's were forgiven by Christ's suffering and death on the cross. I was able to happy at his funeral, not just because he was not suffering anymore... NO! But because I know for certain that I will see him again in the flesh and will be able embrace him in my arms again and see his smiling face. I know the end of the story already.
We too know the end of this story as well that we are living in now. We know God does not support tyrrants, those who are against freedom and who subvert faith in him. We can confidently stand for our principles and know that God will have our back-side. We still have a lot of hard work to do going foward (he is not going to do it for us) but we can trust in him in FAITH.