The little life saving station
By the seashore of a small fishing village there once sat a small life saving station that one of the villagers decided to build after numerous lives were lost to the sea. Because of the rough currents and the jagged hidden rocks in the opening of the port, numerous ships were damaged or wrecked just off the coast. Often the scared travelers would jump into the cold dark water attempting to swim for their lives as their damaged ships slowly sunk beneath the raging waters.
As years passed, the little lifesaving station expertly performed the job it was destined to do. Every time a ship wrecked on sea, someone from the life saving station would quickly board the lifesaving boat and row out to the rescue. Over the years, many lives were saved because of this one lone station and the valuable services they supplied. Soon, the grateful decided to show how much they appreciated the efforts of those that manned the lifesaving station.
Many survivors returned with needed material and rebuilt the little rugged station into an amazing structure. To make the station easier for the ships to see as they drifted closer to the coast, someone constructed a humongous lighthouse to cast light out into the dark of the night. Someone else raised funds to buy many better life saving boats and built showers outside the buildings for those that were dirty from their dip in the sea. A place they could shower and clean up before coming inside the brand new building. Lastly, the call went out for more volunteers to man the life saving station and many people came and gave their time.
Because the small village started to grow, more ships continued to venture to the shore. Bigger ships came to trade and sell their goods. However, because of the increased traffic, more ships become damaged by the waves and rocks hidden in the port. The people of the fishing village decided to build more lifesaving stations to rescue the larger number of stranded travelers. Soon, the coast became littered with small lifesaving stations. To pass the time when no ships wrecked, the lifesaving stations started competing against each other to see which one were the best. They held rowing and swimming competitions when the sea was calm and still. They held membership drives to see which lifesaving station could get the most volunteers. Before long, a lot of activities developed around the life saving stations.
In time, the now large fishing community raised enough money to remove some of the hazards in the harbor. As expected, the number of shipwrecks decreased as the result of the much need work. Because of the lack of shipwrecks, most of the lifesaving stations decided to become beachfront social clubs. With a safe port and plenty of places to party, the community continued to grow. Almost immediately, the people forgot about life saving and instead turned to parting all night. In time, they stopped turning on the light at the lighthouse because the harbor was now safe. Four years later, they closed the last lifesaving station and forgot about rescuing the lost from the sea.
However, one day a large unexpected storm came to the coast in the middle of the busy shipping season. The storm lasted for four long days causing a great number of ships to become damaged upon in the harbor. Thinking the many lifesaving stations were still manned, the travelers jumped into the cold unforgiving water trying to escape their impending fate. Nevertheless, that week many lives were unnecessarily lost to sea. They were lost not because all of the lifesaving stations were closed or even because they jumped into the turbulent sea. These precious lives were lost because those that had volunteered to be lifesavers decided to spend their time partying instead.
Unexpectingly, the storm of the wrath of God has been released from heaven against our nation and world. The godlessness and wickedness of evil untruthful people have taken control of our societies as we try to imitate their displays of greed and self righteousness. However, God will hold each of us accountable for our unrighteous actions since we proclaim a relationship with Him. The creation of the Global Economic Catastrophe can be blamed only on our willingness to chase after the forbidden things of this world, like greed, corruption, and money. Because of these unwise and unrighteous actions of this God believing world, God’s eternal power is being clearly displayed. Having been taught over the centuries from the multitudes of church buildings in our nations, we understood what is expected from us by the mistakes that were made by ancient and immortal Israel. Therefore, we are without excuse.
Although we know God, our actions have neither glorified him as God nor acknowledged God as our divine creator. With our unrighteous lips, we offer thanks to him, but our actions are ineffective. Our foolish hearts have been darkened with greed, lust, deceit, and other sins. Although we claim to be wise and powerful nations, our leaders have been foolish and filled with pride. Although we profess our belief and love for God, our religious and spiritual leaders exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of a dead man on a piece of worthless paper. Therefore, God is daily pronouncing his judgment on our world.
Therefore, there stands a great need for the world to repent because the kingdom of God is at hand. Because of these and other unrighteous actions, God has given our world over in the sinful desires of our hearts. This is why so many of our leaders turn to and commit sins and actions of greed. We have been fooled into exchanging the truth of God for a lie of Lucifer. We have been talked into worshiping celebrities, politicians, athletes, others and an image of a lady rather than the Creator of all of us. Because of this, God removed the protective hedge from around us, and our nations have been overrun by shameful lusts. It is now common and a right for our women to exchange the natural relationship for which they were created for unnatural ones. Likewise, many men yearn for the unnatural relationship with another man. Because the protective hand of God has been removed from around our nations, our children are inflamed with lust to commit the indecent acts and perversion of the unrighteous and lost people they are reared with.
Furthermore, since we decided that it was a waste of valuable time to acknowledge God by training our children up in the way they should go, God gave them over to a depraved mind. Because we refused to teach our children right from wrong by doing what ought not to be done, they have become wicked, evil, greedy and deprave. A large portion of our children are full of envy, strife, deceit and malice. They murder, gossip, slander and will let you know that they hate God and their parents. However, they are not to blame because they were raised by insolent, arrogant and boastful parents that invented many so called fun ways of doing evil. They were raised by parents that disobey their parents. The only examples our children had to learn from were from a senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless generation. Although we know God's righteous decree to be our brother’s keepers, our nations decided to take advantage or capitalize off our fellowman. America is now a group of nations that in spite of understanding the wages of sin is death, continues to do these very things, approve of those who practice them, and teach others in the world to commit the same sins.
For clarification, the statement or the use of the vernacular America is meant to refer to not only our country because the word, America, is no longer confined to the name of a country. It has become an ideology, movement, and a religion. To Americanize has become a common catch phrase used for years to mean to improve or change something. Since we lead the globe into this Global Economic Catastrophe, I wonder what the catch phrase means now?
Nevertheless, God is going to judge Americans more harshly because we used his name as a catch phrase for years. We wrapped God up in our religion and Americanized the meaning of being a child of God. We sold the world a false doctrine based in greed, lies and deceit. Moreover, it was all a message approved by the American people. As flawed humans, we willingly allowed our government to Americanize the world. The men and women of God of this country can rightfully expect to be judged for the unrighteous actions of this government, because according to the Bible, the people of the nations will be held accountable for the action of their government. Moreover, this is a government by the people, of the people and for the people. God will judge all the people.
Although America is on the physical and spiritual brink of collapse, hope is still alive and well. The reasons for the downfall of the economic situation in America stems heavily from the injustices done in throughout our brief history. Now the questions that remain to be answered; the questions that we need to ask are: what is our lifesaving station, America, doing? Are we doing our job as one of God’s life savers or are you just having a party instead? Will we, the people, encourage our leaders to lead this nation down the path of righteousness and justice America was founded upon? Do we do this by shouting the evident proclamations of racism, division, and hatred? On the other hand, do we come across our dividing lines and work to better the visual and spiritual perception of America?
My constant prayer and continual belief is change, progress, and prosperity will return to our world. Nevertheless, it will not come by simply changing the way America is viewed from the inside out. The needed change is a change in the way America is seen from the outside world in. This is something that the citizen of this great nation must first put into effect. We must be willing to take control of our future and the destiny of this nation. We must come to understand that we are all in this sinking boat together. We must come together to lift America up so those that are lost in a sea of this crisis can see the light. We must again make those words ring true that calls out across the sea calling all to come to our shores. They say,
‘Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me;
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.’
—Emma Lazarus, 1883
