Journey of Cross and Quill

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:13-16 ESV)

Once Christianity was indeed the City On A Hill, its light permeating western civilization and propagating the world for Jesus Christ. It was raw, unstained by the corruption of paganism and it spread as fire is wont to do in a dry, brittle land. History now has become for us a useless tirade of dates and places unrelated and irrelevant and we indeed have exchanged the truth for a lie as we cower before the almighty alter of humanism. Once God was sovereign over every thought and action and now we have relegated the Alpha and Omega to a personal and private area of our lives. He is placed upon a shelf and brought down only for those special occasions or for times in dire need then placed in seclusion once again. We decry the omnious outpouring of immorality and corruption stretching the finger of blame at the pagans for their misdeeds without realizing we instead need to turn inward and gaze upon the dirtied reflections of our own souls. Do we not understand that by abdicating our God given responsiblities for self-government and of discipling the nations we have forfeited the very victories our forefathers have tirelessly labored for and sacrificed? Instead we have tiptoed around society giving approval to the various outworkings of sin by our silence and refusing to speak less we offend the pagan deities.

We send our children to be educated by Caesar. We elect corrupt God hating officials who have no respect for the Constitution nor even more importantly, the inspired Word of God. We compromise and give up territory that exclusively belongs to God. Approval and status mean more to us than truth. We praise God and sing hallelujah for one hour and declare ourselves good Christians. One profession of fill in the blank faith and by golly we’re good to go. There is no transformatioin of society save that of pagan institutions. Instead of tearing down those ungodly towers we baptize a brick and pass it on.

There is no knowledge of church history, no acknowledgement of God’s Providential hand, no recollection of great reformers. We have replaced serious study of the Holy Scriptures and its relevant application to all of life with a pagazined theology sprinkled in with a few pious sounding words and declared the Bible a nice book of morals and stories disconnected from reality. We kill our children and call it choice or defend those who do for it would be a monstrosity to tell someone else what to do. We vomit upon God’s created order and call it civil rights, pushing homosexual “marriage” and promiscuity and labeling dissenters bigots and prudes.

Christians has declared God’s law to be void and legalistic but openly approve of the litany of laws promulgating any and all of the whims of our pagan leaders. We decide what is just based on feeling and experience because a fixed standard of truth does not exist in our worldview.
Everyone does what is right in his own eyes and that is fine with us as long as God’s law is not promoted.

We call progress the overt destruction of God’s foundations and build on its rubble a city of inequity. We gaze on dung and declare it beautiful and on seeing the Cross call it excrement.
Material comforts and entertainment consume us yet thoughts of our First Love drift further from us. We have become the world and none seek after God. There is no City on a Hill. Our lights have extinguished.

Return, beloved, to that fair City On a Hill. Shed your filthy rags and bathe in the seas of grace. God’s Sovereignty remains and His Kingdom will continue to spread out over the earth. You, who were chosen of God, gather with us. Come out of the pagan nations whose destruction is certain and judgment is swift.