The inevitable day has come and gone, and for the Goldman family, it is at long last. In our heart of hearts we knew the truth, even when the initial jury was blind, and I doubt anyone was shocked to see the outcome of OJ's second trial. We've secretly or not so secretly been anticipating it ever since the outcome of the first. Perhaps we didn't know if it would happen here in the United States of America or in the afterlife, but regardless, it did happen. And it happened in God's just time and God's own nation, the nation whose justice was established under Him.
God needed to raise His great Hand and reaffirm His mighty presence at this Christmas time. And His plan for OJ puts our nation's eyes once again on God almighty. The time for God is ripe, and if one timely though late (however counter intuitive that sounds) call to justice can succeed in reminding an entire nation of God's importance to our survival, we may not need, like OJ did, to be stripped of liberty and forced to meditate upon our maker because of our resistance to do so freely. The question is this: will the microcosm of the OJ sentencing resonate in the mind and hearts of America the larger meaning to which this small triumph is equally applicable?
God gave the Goldman family the greatest gift they could have had this Christmas. And in doing so, God has blessed us all with a call to wake up, lest what befell OJ befall this great country.
Christmas highlights the importance of God in our lives and in this Country. God gives everyone, even OJ, the freedom to make mistakes and to learn from them. If we choose, like OJ did, not to reform, then in His great love for us, His children, He may choose to strip us of that freedom. For OJ, we can only hope that the restriction of his mind to his crimes, and to the mistakes he has made, will finally cause him to take responsibility for his actions, and to realize that he is at fault and can only blame his own self for his situation, but more importantly, we hope OJ will get some jailhouse faith and realize that this fate, far from being a mere punishment, is a blessing from a loving God who hopes that he will choose to right his relationship with God before he leaves this earth.
Now, if America was watching God's hand in both OJ's and the Goldman's lives during this latest episode of OJ's crime and punishment, then perhaps it will see that God has deliberately and overtly asserted His very existence. God is nowhere in this nation if not in our justice system. Likewise, such a display should sound a warning to us all, because if we continue to let atheists launch their assaults on our founding fathers' faith during the season which celebrates Christ (hence Christmas), then God will take His own issue and His own remedy against that treason. And He may very well choose to do so by doing away with a nation that no longer honors its pledge, literally, which is to be a nation under Him. God may take our wealth, our lives, and ultimately our collective liberty.
How easy it is to forget that the truths our founding fathers held to be "self-evident" are the very truths for which it was necessary to pledge an allegiance to be a "nation under God." God, ultimately, is the one who gives humans the right or the absence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Will America reform its immorality or is this nation's destiny that of Sodom and Gomorrah? Will America be a pillar or will it become a pillar of salt?
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