Our Creator Weeps as the Nations Rage

We were created in God's image to walk with Him all the days of our lives and we started out that way in Genesis in the Garden of Eden; it was wonderful beyond description! 

Life in God’s Garden

Genesis 2:8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 
12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 
14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel;[b] it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

We all know Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge and God surely wept.

He continues to weep today as He looks over His Creation and watches man's effort to destroy it all from unborn babies to the very air we breathe. 

Our Creator

Psalm 100 Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. 
3 Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

The Eternal Word

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
2 He was in the beginning with God. 
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 
5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

America used to reflect God's blessings and the whole world desired to be part of this great country; what happened?

Darkness entered the land

A man who has rejected God then continues only through God's grace to live and breathe. He gives you every breath, think about that, and He continues to give that breath even to those who reject Him.

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

America like a man began it's journey enlightened by the Spirit of God but then in recent days we have entered into darkness and have lost our way. Before we are no more I would like to pay tribute to what we once stood for.

In the Netherlands, the American Cemetery and Memorial is in the village of Margraten, about six miles from Maastricht. There lie buried over 8,000 American soldiers killed in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall and winter of 1944-5.

The Dutch hold an annual memorial concert every September at the cemetery to remember and honor the Americans who died in the effort to eject the German army from Holland. Many of the fallen GIs, were "adopted" by a Dutch family and to this day their grave sites are decorated each year by their Dutch "family." Many of these families keep the soldiers portrait in their home, displayed in a place of honor and fathers pass this obligation down to their sons.

This version of the original "taps" music is played by a 13 year old Dutch girl named Melissa Venema. The conductor of the orchestra is Andre Rieu from Holland . Many of us have never have heard taps played in its entirety . The original version was called Last Post, and was written by Daniel Butterfield in 1801. It was rather lengthy and formal, as you will hear in this clip, so in 1862 it was shortened to 24 notes and re-named Taps.

For America that I once knew; as you watch this video be sure to play it full screen.

The Last Post

America the land that I love please repent and return to your former position with God at the head.

2 Chronicles 7:14

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.