Welcome friends. “It was the best of times and it was the worst of times” said a famous writer. Concerned citizens, whilst acknowledging the blessings of living in Australia, are lamenting the state of the nation. Presently we are living by a “cutflower” morality. You can cut a flower and put it in a vase and it will look pretty for some time, but it will surely die. The reason is it has been cut off from its roots.
When you cut off a nation’s morals from their source, God, then it is only a matter of time before they die and something else replaces them. Since God’s thoughts are not our thoughts but are higher than ours as the heavens are from the earth (Isa. 55), to cut ourselves off from God is to go downward – there is nowhere else to go but to end in immorality and idolatry. To feel good about ourselves we change labels, calling good evil and evil, good.
Go to the big cities of our land and right in the heart of those cities where the real estate is horrendously expensive you will see cathedrals. In many cases the land was donated by the government because it recognized the integral part God had to play in the life of the nation and the tenor of its citizenry. This influence was partly responsible for our nation’s good start, even though one must say our respect for God and His laws was decidedly imperfect. However our laws basically reflected Biblical values and, regardless of political persuasion, whether left or right, we understood the nature and value of the family and the morals that ensured its integrity.
“Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people”.
Now, of course, things are different. We are almost at the bottom of the “slippery slope”, with only things like bestiality and paedophilia to be adopted. Rest assured they will come. Slippery slope warnings never work because at the time when they should be used the warnings seem alarmist, and down the slope they don’t work because the moral fibre and backbone to resist is wanting and it is too late.
History is a wonderful teacher – if we will listen. What is history but a graveyard of nations: nations that arose, had their day in the sun and were then weighed in the balance and fell. “All nations shall go to the grave that forget God”. One ancient Greek writer said that in his day when any man spoke of his lover it was always of a young boy.
How shall we resist the same argument used by the homosexuals that the paedophiles were “born this way”? (Really? There is no homosexual gene or paedophilic gene and sexual inclinations are the last thing on an infants mind). There is no point in saying that we will resist this by legislation – didn’t we have legislation outlawing homosexuality some years ago?
We have already declared war on children – kill them in the womb if you don’t want them. We are grooming them in schools with a sexualising curriculum supposedly to prevent the bullying of children being raised in homosexual households. With this comes ever-younger sexual activity and the response will be the lowering of the age of consent.
God’s laws are “for our good always” (Deut.6:24) and man is not capable of working out the best way (cf. Jer. 10:23) – people pursue their special interest groups’ agendas but cannot see the outcome in the next generation.
Who would have thought when we liberalised laws on divorce some 50 years ago we would have same-sex marriage today? But that’s what happens when you cut yourself off from God. We become prey to every lobbyist that comes down the pike. Oh we still swear on the Bible in a court of law, and our Politicians are still sworn in on a Bible, but it is all theatre. Before the beginning of Parliament each day a prayer is uttered asking God to guide the deliberations and bless the outcomes for the nation. Immediately God is banished: He is not even allowed to be an elephant in the room but is banished to the public gallery where He is to sit quietly and watch greater minds pontificate. The flower is wilting badly. George Washington was on the money when he said, It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
Alex Pope
As to be hated needs but to be seen
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
