The only thing that prevented a terrible tragedy was dumb luck and heroics by passengers, yet the woman in charge of our national security says the system worked like clockwork?

Let’s be honest here. We are being lied to. Only by the grace of God was disaster prevented. We should be using this opportunity as a second chance to admit our faults and to make changes, but we have a ruling elite in place that is bound by political correctness and their own ineptness. They are covering themselves, and we are extremely vulnerable.

We are up against a vicious enemy who understands one thing only: strength. Devoted Muslims will never coexist peacefully with non-Muslims, because their religion explicitly commands them not to. Going all the way back to the time of Thomas Jefferson, in America’s first confrontation with Islam, which was also unprovoked, the leader of the Barbary Pirates declared, “our enemies must either fight well or pay well”. Nothing has changed.

Barack Obama ran his presidential campaign on a promise to restore respect for America in the world. He was going to do this the soft way, by opening the doors to communication and negotiation with our enemies. How’s that been working?

Obama has been communicating with the terrorist regime in Iran, but allowing the brave democratic protesters there to twist in the wind. This, Reagan would not have done. He’s been making a career of bowing to foreign potentates that no American president should ever bow to.

In an outstanding article in today’s American Thinker, J.R. Dunn chronicles the diplomatic debacle that took place at Copenhagen. It wasn’t widely reported, but the Chinese openly seriously disregarded Obama, and their reason was understandable, based on history that Obama seems to either be oblivious to or has not considered the implications of.

These things have communicated that we have neither strength nor diplomatic understanding, and have brought upon both Obama and America worldwide disdain.

In her de facto abandonment of the true God, America is dooming itself to self-destruction. There is no system of law that can ensure justice among a people who are not committed to acknowledging truth and living it out by serving the greater good. We will fight among ourselves until we are consumed. We will lose our discernment, so that we choose leaders who are neither godly nor competent, based on what we selfishly but erroneously think we will get from them. God alone is the sole source of wisdom. We ignore Him to our great peril.

America has been taken over by an elite that does not believe in her responsibility to lead the way to freedom and to open the world up to the Gospel. As did Marx, this elite believes that man, through government, can blaze the way to universal peace and prosperity. But that is a recipe for disaster. The Bible has solemnly warned us that it is not in man to direct his own steps. We need to be walking by the divine revelation of God’s Word, or we are bound to fail and to fall.

And because we have been given so much, our fall will indeed be great, unless we wake up and return to the Lord.

The answer is to become aware, to pray, and to act. If we don’t get back on track with the Lord – individually first, then as a nation – it is going to get even more ugly than it has been. One institution after another will collapse about us, taking the social fabric with them, and but for the grace of God the most innocent will suffer along with the guilty.

God has assured us that if we return to Him in repentance and prayer, he will hear us, forgive and cleanse. He was willing to spare even Sodom if only ten righteous persons were found. It is time to acknowledge our dire condition and beseech Him for mercy, and for grace to help in time of need.

It is late, but I do not believe it is too late. The spirit within me says, “This day we fight!” The battle is the Lord’s, and He always causes us to be victorious in Christ Jesus. But we must be willing to hear and to heed. May God’s people respond to the call.