Americas Worst Enemy

I love America, and make no apology for doing so. I am a patriot. I enjoy her freedoms, especially in being free to worship the true and living God.

I still believe the United States is the greatest country on the face of the earth. I love America, but I don’t like the direction she is heading in.

We have turned our back on God who has blessed America beyond comparison. So what is the real danger facing our nation?

Might our country actually be facing God’s judgment for its offenses against him?

If so, who is at fault? I believe terrorism is a great threat to the USA. I do not however believe it is our greatest threat.

I know we have powerful enemies around the world, but the most powerful are much closer by. Yes, evil exists and is growing rampantly.


Nikita Khrushchev made this statement before the U.N. in the early years of the Cold War. "America will fall without a shot being fired. It will fall from within."

I fear no truer words have ever been spoken about America.

It is not confined to the part of the world we think it is. I believe America’s greatest threat is not from without but from within. We are ourselves are our worst enemy and I am convinced that God is generally displeased with us as a nation.

We in America have legalized the killing of the unborn in the name of choice. Now we are headed for the euthanasia of our senior citizens when they are deemed to old or to sick.

We have allowed the homosexual agenda to take root in our nation with the legalization of same sex marriage in some states. Many other states may soon follow their lead.

We are no longer in many towns able to display a manger scene at Christmas. Many schools have outlawed the signing of Christmas songs that make mention of Jesus.

The National Endowment for the Arts with the help of tax payer money displays a cross suspended upside down in a jar of the artis turine in a New York Museum.

The list could go on and on!

The prophet Micah in chapter 3 is warns us about something.

He wants his nation to know that the God they serve is not only a God of love, mercy, and grace, but also a God of judgment…and though God would rather bless and demonstrate love, and continue to extend His grace and mercy, that there does indeed come a time when, because of sin and rebellion, God’s patience is exhausted.

Eventually God will give a nation or an individual what they are demanding. It happened in the pre-diluvian world of Noah’s time, and again at Sodom and Gomorrah.

It even happened to God’s people, Israel. Will He make an exception for America?

Micah speaks by the Spirit of God and points a finger at three distinct groups of people and says, “It’s Your Fault!”:

1. Corrupt Politicians
2. Compromising Preachers
3. Complacent People

Micah desperately wants the people to understand that the God who loves sinners still hates sin. And sin must always be judged.

His holiness demands that. Praise God that if you’re saved you will never be judged for your sin; they were judged 2,000 years ago on Calvary’s cross! But that does not mean we can live a careless, haphazard Christian life.

The same Bible which teaches that we will not be judged for our sins also tells us that we will indeed be judged for how faithful we have been. All individuals will one day be judged, and there is such a thing as the judgment of a nation.

Might we facing this in America today? It is time for us to repent and turn back to God!

Waiting For The Shout!
Rev John Spinks