Will We Be Sleeping?

Recently I was listening to an audio of a message by a man named Paul Washer. The whole thing was excellent, and well worth hearing. (You can find it here under courtship series. I would definitely recommend that you listen to it! Pay no attention to the title, it is for everyone; just please listen to it!) One specific thought really stuck in my mind from what Mr. Washer was saying. Here it is:
"I hear people, because I've lived so many years in third-world countries, they'll say, 'Well, you know, we don't even know what it's like. It's so easy to live as a Christian in the United States of America.'
That is one of the largest lies that exist! It is so much easier to live for Jesus Christ in the jungles of Peru than it is [here in America] that you can't even compare the two things! I knew two Russians who when they were young men in church saw the KGB come in, slam their pastor against a wall, pull out his tongue and cut it off. And yet those two young Russians told me it's much more difficult to live for Jesus Christ in America than in Russia.
It's easy to live as an unconverted church member. It's easy to live like most people who call themselves Christians. But to be a Biblical disciple of Jesus Christ, this place, the Bible Belt, is the most difficult place to do it on the face of the earth! The question is, are you going to follow Jesus? Or are you going to have a form of godliness that denies the power thereof."
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What shocking words!
But they shouldn't be. Of course they are true. I had just never thought of it like that. I consider those words as a challenge. We are called to be salt and light to a dying world. We are called to be in this world but not of it. And we have been given everything we need for life and godliness.
We live in Sodom. There is no doubt about that. And I sure hope that there are many Abraham's out there who are pleading, clinging, wrestling in prayer on behalf of a righteous few. Because this nation is on the path to destruction.
I once thought that the reason Sodom was wiped out was because of homosexuality. It was not. Ezekiel tells us the reason:
"Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." -Ezekiel 16:49
This describes America exactly.
Pride...fullness of food...abundance of idleness... "neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy."

"If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. " -2 Chron. 7:14

America,what will we miss while we are sleeping?

Will Jesus come again and leave us slumbering where we lay?

America, we will go down in history

As a nation with no room for its King.

Will we be sleeping?

Will we be sleeping?

-"While You Were Sleeping" by Casting Crowns