God does not raise up a nation to go strutting selfishly

[Crabtownboy]

Sadly many Americans and Baptists have forgotten this wise Baptist preacher’s words.

"God does not raise up a nation to go strutting selfishly, forgetful of the high interests of humanity. National selfishness leads to destruction as truly as does individual selfishness. Nations can no more live to themselves than can individuals. Humanity is bound up together in the big bundle of life. The world is now one big neighborhood. There are no longer any hermit nations. National isolation is no longer possible in the earth. The markets of the world instantly register every commercial change. An earthquake in Asia is at once registered in Washington City. The people on one side of the world may not dare to be indifferent to the people on the other side. Every man of us is called to be a world citizen, and to think and act in world terms. The nation that insists upon asking that old murderous question of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?" the question of the profiteer and the question of the slacker, is a nation marked for decay and doom and death. The parable of the Good Samaritan is Heaven's law for nations as well as for individuals. Some things are worthy dying for, and if they are worth dying for they are worth living for."

Baptists and Religious Liberty by George W. Truett

 

[MennoSota]

Sometimes God does raise up a nation to strut selfishly. However, that nation will also be brought down to the pit. We would be unwise to think the US will be spared.
Habakkuk 1:5-11
[5]The lord replied, “Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.
[6]I am raising up the Babylonians, a cruel and violent people. They will march across the world and conquer other lands.
[7]They are notorious for their cruelty and do whatever they like.
[8]Their horses are swifter than cheetahs and fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their charioteers charge from far away. Like eagles, they swoop down to devour their prey.
[9]“On they come, all bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand.
[10]They scoff at kings and princes and scorn all their fortresses. They simply pile ramps of earth against their walls and capture them!
[11]They sweep past like the wind and are gone. But they are deeply guilty, for their own strength is their god.”