Honoring Afghanistan

 My heart weeps tonight as so many people have been treated with so much disregard.  There is no one who is expendable.  How are we not willing to pay a price to offer rescue?  I don't want to get into the politics of a 20 year war.  I don't disagree with ending it.  But I believe with all my heart that everyone who had skin in this war needs to feel our earnest gratitude for the price they have paid.  We need to honor the gift of aid from the Afghan people with aid in return.  We need to let our Christian brethren in Afghanistan know that we hear their plight and we are earnestly lifting them up in our prayers!  The wolves have come and we have left many to them.  Oh God defend those that we have not defended.  How can we now ask for Your mercy when we have not offered any?

God have mercy on all who are suffering tonight.  Honor those who have served selflessly.  Please help us not turn our faces away from the pain but to stand up for the vulnerable.  That is who we are, that is what we do... what marine can live with himself if he were to leave even one man behind?  God comfort the comfortless tonight and bring rescue!

Is America Babylon?

I recently was watching a random video on YouTube when it was interrupted by a commercial.  I was a little bit stunned by a YouTube commercial with a religious theme so I took a minute to hear what the man had to say.  

I have reservations when listening to a modern day "prophet".  There are some who are truly speaking God's message but my bar is high.  I do expect a 100 percent accuracy rate 100 ;recent of the time.  Else, what of his words are we to listen to?.  So I listened to this man with reservation.

He talked of America being the Babylon that is mentioned in the book of Revelation.  He gave many compelling arguments and I have been set to pondering.  I had been taught that the United States is not mentioned anywhere in scripture and it didn't seem to be, when I formed my opinion.  But times have changed and I was taken aback when he mentioned how we, in America have become the instigators of so much  evil.  That is true!  God forgive us!

It's not just our policies... it's our money.  Our money, is the money that drives the human trafficking trade, the illegal weapons trade, the drug trafficking trade.  We... our money drives the use of children in factories in other parts of the world and the crushing of the sprits of many more.  We have become global consumers without taking note of the effect we are ultimately having.

"And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon[a] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”" Revelation 14:8  

What do you think?