What is missing is love, in America, and in the World. They say that God’s first four Commandments are to love God, and the last six Commandments are to love ourselves and others.
Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37).” The second is “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself (Mark 12:31).”
It is easy to see, by what is happening in America today, that his commandments are not being followed. Obviously, Americans have not been teaching our children at home and at school about God, the creator of everything. THAT INCLUDES ME!
Our present and past leaders have failed to obey God. Humanity has forgotten that God’s Ten Commandments became effective when he gave them to Moses. The government is to carry out God’s laws in order to have a loving and just society.
Those just commandments are, (1) You shall have no other gods before me, (2) You shall make no idols, (3) You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, (4) Keep the Sabbath day holy, (5) Honor your father and your mother, (6) You shall not murder, (7) You shall not commit adultery, (8) You shall not steal, (9) You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, (10) You shall not covet.
Bible history clearly shows that even Israel, God’s chosen nation, failed several times to obey God, and they were severely punished. Their many offences included throwing their children into the fire as an offering to their idol Gods.
That same bible history shows that, after their punishments, our loving and forgiving God was able to turn them around.
The Holy Bible also shows that God punishes nations as well as their individuals. America, and most nations in the world today, are prime for such punishments. He will do it as he said he will, “in the Book of Revelation.”
JUST IMAGINE, WHAT A DIFFERENT WORLD THIS WOULD BE, IF HUMANITY WOULD DO WHAT JESUS SAID. HE SAID, “LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL,” AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF. WE ARE ALL HIS CHILDREN, AND WE ARE ALL NEIGHBORS IN THIS EARTH.
Manuel Ybarra, Jr., 17472 CR 3765, Coalgate, OK 74538, mybarrajr18@yahoo.com