Blessed Is The Nation

Psalm 33:12 declares "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance." When a nation recognizes God as the LORD, Jehovah, Almighty God, they will be blessed. In our day of multi-culturalism and the recognition of many different gods, such as Allah or Buddha or some other so called deity, God's Word states that there is only one God and that He blesses the nation who recognizes Him as the only God. When we as a nation recognize other so-called deities and try to include them with the one true God, we are in fact rejecting the God of the Bible. Jesus did not say that He was a way to God, He stated that He was the way to God and no one could come to the Father but by Him (John 14:6) But who is this God and how can we know Him? God has revealed Himself to us through His Creation (Psalm 19:1,2), through His Word (John 5:39) and through His Son, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:1-3) As we study the scripture we discover that the one true God is holy and just in all His ways, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, the sovereign God who works all things after the counsel of His own will(Ephesians 1:11). According to Exodus 34:6 the Lord God is compassionated and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth, who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. He has revealed Himself to us through His Son, Jesus Christ, who came to this earth, lived a perfect sinless life, died on the cross for our sin, was buried but rose again the 3rd day, showing himself to many after His resurrection and finally ascending into heaven where He now intercedes for His people. One day He will return to this earth to set up His kingdom where He will reigh as King of Kings and Lord of Lords forever and ever! Those who know Him will spend eternity with Him in heaven. Those who reject Him will spend an eternity in the lake of fire. And that is just beginning. There is so much for us to know about this Creator God that it will take eternity for us to know Him and to understand His ways. So why is it important for a nation to honor Him as the LORD and be blessed by Him. It is because our theology (what we believe about God) directly affects our philosophy of living. It affects how we interpret history (the study of who is in control) which affects our philosophy of government (how man should be governed) and our philosophy of economics (how we believe man's needs should be met). It all begins with a proper, biblical understanding of who God is. If we miss that, then we as a nation will not be blessed. We as a nation today are suffering from an ignorance of who the one true God really is because we have rejected His Word and denied its truth. May we as Americans, and especially if we call ourselves American Christians, return to the truth of God's Word and rediscover who our awesome, powerful, personal, infinite God is as we seek His face with all of our heart.