Lucifer Wept

We are back, America is back from the brink of becoming a modern model of “Paradise Lost.” We are back, but the brink is still there.  The further we get from it the better.

“Paradise Lost,” by John Milton is a classic novel in which the heart of evil is revealed, though often carefully cloaked in robes of righteousness. As such it covertly advances its evil intent by using moral confusion. That sounds like our recent society. We have called evil good for so long many have come to believe the misdirection. Conflict and confusion, twin evils, have subtly, but significantly let evil prevail in much of our national life. Many use words other than evil, some calling it progressive.

Believing there to be a spiritual component to everything it is easily seen in our recent history.

As in Milton’s work, sympathy for the devil is seen as it is in a song by the Rolling Stones. Reflect on these descriptive words from “Sympathy For The Devil.” It is a poetic description of the deception America has been under. The words are:

“Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year. Stole many a man’s soul and faith

I was ‘round when Jesus Christ Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made —- sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you  Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you Is the nature of my game

Just call me Lucifer cause I’m in need of some restraint

So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse Or I’ll lay your soul to waste.”

That has been Lucifer’s game, the laying waste of the soul of America. The election is like God saying, “Let’s try this one more time and let’s get it right this time.” That will involve using this window in time for there to be a genuine spiritual awakening that includes all of life; political, morally, socially, culturally, financially, internationally, and by all means spiritually. Ideally this should begin in the churches, but for that to happen many will have to brush the ashes off the altar and reignite the gospel fires. God has given this formula for doing so.

“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” (II Chronicles 7:14).

Pray earnestly for a great spiritual awakening in America.