Comma or No Comma

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 It's about time to inject Christianity back into public schools.  That's the way it was when i was 6 in the first grade and look at me now, Lord, seeking You and trying to live righteously.  Not perfectly.  The Pledge of Allegiance spoke about: One nation under God."  i remember one teacher correcting us for the pause--ONE NATION [PAUSE] UNDER GOD--apparently there was no comma back then, but everybody got involved with taking God out of the pledge comma or no comma. 



So what threatens me?  The loss of a job?  Betrayal of a friend?  Children in danger going to school?  People willing to murder based on beliefs or having no beliefs?  The temptations that the world and i both face?  In the Book of Revelation i am seeing God in His glory.  God shows mercy and justice at once.  God putting His seal on the saints and the saints praising God.  There is a plague of moral and spiritual apostasy rampant in this world today, just look at the current events these past three years.  He will rule the nations with a rod of iron.  

i think we're more saturated with ungodliness in this country as it is and i don't have to shop at Targets anymore.  Spectators can take their seats in a football stadium after folks pray and praise God and His Only Begotten Son.  The apostasy was already predicted in the Bible, and a lot of people hate hearing that...or any reference to te Bible for that matter.  But i remember my first-grade teacher reading from that marvelous Book.  Today Christians are marginalized, and that doesn't surprise God at all.  It's His design anyway.

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