In GOD we trust !!!!

This morning I was stunned when I read The Malaysian Insider article with the headline "Keep God out of football - FIFA tells Brazil superstars". FIFA was referring to Kaka and captain Lucio revealed T-shirts with devout slogans such as “I Belong to Jesus” and “I Love God” during the Confederations Cup final last month.

Kaka and the Brazil Football team has been well known in honoring God in the football field before and after a a game. In fact, during the last Confederations Cup, the squad and backroom staff formed a large circle and sank to their knees in prayer after the victory over the US in the finals.

Little by little, slowly but surely, and ever so subtly, God is being removed from our society. US is a classic example of this phenomena. In 1962, the US Supreme Court banned school prayer. In 1963, the Bible was outlawed in U.S. Schools. The Creator was outlawed in U.S. school science classes in 1987. In 1991 the name of God was outlawed at U.S. school graduation ceremonies. The Pledge of Allegiance with the term “under God” was outlawed in U.S. schools in 2002. A recent statistical analysis by David Barton graphically illustrates how America has plummeted from righteous living, prosperity and success in the last quarter century.

The world is slowly distancing itself from Godly principles. Secular humanism now directs the public affairs of our nations. This philosophy denies God, Christ and His Word. When we remove God's standards, then man is free to substitute his own standards of morality and we disallow the divinity of Christ and His completed work on the cross. Then there is no longer any need for God and His atoning grace. The moral compass points to what is right in the eyes of each individual without respect to God's standards.

I believe the main purpose of the actions above is not just to remove God from the schools and public arena. That is only one of the battlegrounds. It is an attempt to remove God from the hearts of people both public and private.

Judges 21:25 says, "In those days every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Is that a description of our society today? Many people today do their own thing without regard to God's will. The question is asked, "Isn't one person's values as good as another's?" Many in our society, including some Christians, believe the answer to this is, "YES". Oswald Chambers declared, realize that “God’s laws are not watered down to suit anyone; if God did that He would cease to be God. The moral law never alters for the noblest or the weakest; it remains abidingly and eternally the same.”

It is time for us to stand up and be accounted for in our walk with the Lord. We need to continue to be a lighthouse to a world that is loosing it's light daily.