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America we have a problem.

I am a pharmacist, but probably would make a better physician.  I am good at diagnosing the problem, weak at fixing it.

We have a problem.  Is there anyone who can't see it? Is there anyone who thinks things are getting better and better and the best is yet to come?  I mean, anyone besides Obama think that?

Those of us who are sobered up these days see there is something majorly wrong.  And we aren't even looking at North Korea.  We aren't even discussing World War III coming soon.  America could not be going down a worse path if Hillary Clinton were in office and Jody Arias was her VP.

America has a problem because there is a problem in the churches.  The world reflects the church.  Pastor Coulson (the one from Canada) said the reason that God raised up Hollywood is there are so many actors in the church.  The hope is not in Obama moving to Singapore or North Korea launching a timely missile to the nearest White House it can find.  The hope is not paying off the national debt.  The hope is not in saving the planet and stopping pollution.  The hope is not curing cancer or curing AIDS.  The hope for America if there is one, and for the rest of the world for that matter, is for the churches to come alive and repent and wake up and see that if they were truly alive they would burn for the souls of men and they would hate sin and they would affect the world around them.  Instead the world affects the church and we continue to sleep on.

If Jesus is the Prince of Peace why do so many Christians need anxiety meds and alcohol and yoga and Buspar and sleep aids?  My wife is on Pintress on line and you basically pin things you enjoy or want to share with others. She pins birthday decorating ideas, and recipes and decorating things and scripture signs.  One good pin said, something like "The Bible is meant to be bread to eat daily not cake for special occasions".  Well today, my friend's wife, a guy who was in my wedding, who is a youth pastor, and would preach on the streets with me in Niagara Falls, posted a recipe for a drink that used Malibu RUM in it.  God is against drunkenness and when you have the leadership now promoting SIN there is a problem!!  Old Time Preacher Billy Sunday said beer and liquor are fine in their place, but their place is in hell.

If Jesus said I came to give them life and life more abundently, why are so many Christians on Prozac?  Why are so many Christians on anti depressants?  You are telling me that Cymbalta and Lexapro and Zoloft and Paxil bring more joy than Matthew Mark Luke and John? 

Jesus delivered the oppressed and those with a devil.  We would rather take psych meds? We would rather send them to a shrink who needs his own shrink? 

How did we survive 100 years ago without meds for ADD/ADHD?  What did kids do?  Well, back then they did better in school.  Hmm, maybe kicking God out of the schools has a bit to do with it.  We don't need ADD MEDS.  We need to ADD-GOD to school.

America's Christians (well maybe as I stated before now don't even hold to that standard) don't smoke or drink.  In many circles you don't do a few externals and put on a suit and you are saved and ready for bible college.  Yet we are just as addicted to the world.  Addicted to sugar, to our cell phones, to our junk food, to our sweets.  We can't fast because we go into shock 12 hours without our high fructose corn syrup.  We can't keep up with God because we get winded because we are so out of shape. We can't hear God because we are always on our gadgets.  We don't need God because we have good insurance.  We don't want God because we are having too much fun in the world.

The world's ways don't work.  If you are addicted to heroin, you go to a doctor now and they give you a prescription for the just as addictive Suboxone Film tabs.  1 film 3 times a day and see me again in a month.  You go to the pharmacy for your drugs now instead of an alley way.  Same addictions but now it is legal.  You don't want your new baby, well if you wrap it in a towel and suffocate it and leave it in the laundry hamper you are charged with murder.  The same baby is just in a different environment 6  months earlier but if you take your baby you are carrying to a state licensed doctor he can legally chop up your baby or poison your baby or suck out your baby and he gets a salary for that and is a respected medical professional.  God calls him a sick murderer but Obama thinks he is a wonderful man. 

The world is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

That is no surprise.

What is though a shock is how much the church now resembles the world.   Just 200 years ago, America looked a lot like it's churches.  We need to turn it around, before the whole thing comes crashing down.

We need to fast for America.  But first we need to wake up, get off our addictions, and truly see we may call ourselves Christians but we have far too much of the world in us.

If you doubt that, just go ask your pharmacist the next time you need a refill on your meds.