Miracle On Ice

Miracle On Ice

1/11/20

Every one of us has a moment in their lives that we look back on and remember just how important we can be to others.  This moment of ours can be a point of our legacy and remembrance or it can be one that fades into the past due to the ridiculous things we do later on that trumps such a deed.  Yes, all of us make mistakes and fail sometimes but we are not destined nor were we created to live in a constantly failed existence.  God Created us so that we would glorify Him at all times, an eternal testament to those who spiritually doubted Him so long ago.  It seems like we have fallen into this dark trap of our own enemy through the blindness of our own shortcomings.  But we have a way out, but since we are physically engrained in such a quagmire, it takes guts and courage to do the correct thing and accept that the only way to make amends for such deviances is through God and His Son’s blood.  Try as we may accomplish this miracle on our own, we cannot until we turn our hearts back to God.

When I was in junior high school, the Winter Olympics were held in this country at a small place called Lake Placid, New York.  It was my first time to be old enough to understand the meaning of such an event and what it meant to compete at a high level with other nations.  Up until that time, the only competition status I ever had was with other teams within my city and had no clue about international competitions.  Living for most of my life in the southern states of this nation, I really was not too familiar with the winter sports that so many people grew up knowing and experiencing.  Most kids in the North learned to ice skate as they were learning to walk so that it was a natural kind of movement to them, normality if you wish.  So, when I was watching these sports being played not only did I not know what I was watching I had a great deal to learn about these games pretty quickly too.  I must admit that some of the winter sports that are still competed between people today I do not understand completely but try my best to “fake” it when someone asks a question about them.

The US Men’s Hockey Team was the center of focus that year due to the fact that they were a bunch of college kids which did pretty well in the preliminary rounds but would come up against the Soviet Union in the elimination round.  Weeks earlier, these two teams played each other with the USSR Team completely annihilating the USA Team in a “friendly” game.  But this time, things were different and the stakes were so much higher than a friendly match between two enemy countries, this game was special for no one expected the US to have a chance of winning.  As the story goes, the US Team played their hearts out and won the game in dramatic fashion, dubbing it the “Miracle On Ice”.  The US still had to beat Finland to win the Gold Medal and two nights after the USSR game, the miracle was complete.  This entire nation became excited again about who we were due to the fact that a group of young men with so many backgrounds could come together and turn a nation’s heart upside down and ignite a national unity and pride for country all through a game of hockey. 

From that weekend back in 1980 onward, this nation realized just how influential our name could be if we could continue this unity and gather other nations together to provide a unity like never before.  In this country, national pride ruled the day with the desire for everyone to become involved in getting other nations to join in the unified stance of their people.  Yes, there were still major differences between nations and rulers around the world but a leader was recognized and then made public for everyone to notice.  The “Miracle On Ice” game did so much more for this nation than any other international sporting game had ever done.  Some people sometimes refer to the game as “the game that was heard around the world” served as a beacon of hope to end tyranny against humanity and to bring the freedom to every person who wished.  Another and fiercely noticeable trait of this unity was God, church attendance and membership skyrocketed and it seemed like everything that was intended for this nation and the hope that it was created and ordained to be was nowhere.  The country grew in every aspect known to humanity and modern civilization, but instead of allowing and keeping God in control of this nation we slowly began to allow cracks of worldly idols into our lives, providing a nasty rebellion that we continue to see today; the Miracle On Ice was now a toned down flicker instead of an Olympic beacon to the world.

While our physical blessings have continued its steady climb into the worlds of the unknown wealth category, we have reciprocated the same slope but in a downward direction our hearts and faith in God.  We have continually drawn God from our home life and thus our daily public and private lives so that we no longer are proud to say that we are a Christian nation.  Over the past few decades or so we have increasingly taken God out of our speech and from our courtrooms and educational curricula in order to justify and satisfy our own personal agendas of pleasure and self-righteous attitudes.  The goals of being the standard of the world protrude now as a dumbed-down society that would rather lie in a street gutter than live in a modest home with all the amenities a human should have.  This acceptance of darkness is not an equality measure but one that displays the worst about humanity through the gifts of the world instead of those from God.  What kind of responsibility can we have if we are strung out in a street gutter, were we established to live in such a condition?  Whose idea was it to bring ourselves down to a standard and lower level of existence?  It sure was not God’s plan for our existence, so I guess that means it is our enemy’s plan.  We as a nation failed to understand what we were accepting into our lives and thus our seeking God and His standards in our lives also began to fade, but just like the physical aspect of our failing we ignored our spiritual aspects as well.

So, why would the strongest nation ever built decide to voluntarily chip away at its standard and torch-bearing status enough to initiate biblical changes and being alignment with specific prophecies that do not have any good fortunes for western societies?  It is for the same reason Israel believed that she could turn her heart away from God and live as she wanted to without having to deal with the consequences of the world.  Israel was a miracle in its creation, its establishment, and its growth patterns but they too got their eyes on the world and its beauty instead of keeping their spiritual eyes on God.  Whose pattern did they follow you ask?  Israel followed the path that Adam and Eve took, you know, the path that got them thrown out of the Garden of Eden and created this mess that we are still in today.  It is at this point in human history that the miracle that God planned for humanity turned into a play on words and it is this play on words that God wants us to understand is in the process of coming to pass unless we turn our hearts back to God and put Him first in our plans and our lives.

It was never God’s plan for Israel to have to go through the divisional pain they experienced; however, it was due to their own actions that they did.  It is this process that God continues to not want this nation and subsequently the world to endure also but as of now, we have no intention of recognizing our sins and repenting from them before God must grab our attention.  Sadly, the one entity that was put in charge of reminding its people and to tell the world about the preventative measures of this change in conditions has come to the conclusion that it is alright to mix the world with God.  This nation was never meant to lose any of its position or status within the world simply because God has ordained her to stand as His beacon of what He wishes for every person but on HIS level and not the world.  The Church is the one that is supposed to be on fire and represents the torch of God’s Kingdom to those around the world but that flame has been turned down and is now being threatened to be turned off completely.  Satan has done a fantastic job in convincing the Church that she does not need to witness and to have such a bright flame and that it is okay for the flame holder to just be present and not in use.  See, the growth of the Church in the 1980s symbolized that flame being turned on high, hot, and bright so that all points of the world could see it, but not anymore.

To reinforce this sad truth concerning the Church, we cannot ignore the fact that many churches in small communities are closing their doors due to the lack of people in attendance and because of other disastrous physical conditions that warrant such squelching of the eternal flame.  Off the top of my head, in my denomination alone I know of a few church buildings that have been sold due to this type of dimmed light that now belongs to the world.  In other denominations such closings occur because there are not enough priests to fill the need of the people so in turn, the higher ups close those institutions instead of keeping them open.  How can we justify that the Church is in good spiritual shape when we do not have enough people on fire for God to fill the vacancies of pulpits around the world?  This states that people would rather live in continuous division than being united, this occurs in both physical and spiritual aspects of our lives.  We can find out exactly when all of this division started if we take a look at when our hearts began to take for granted the Church and her commission from Christ.  God gave us another shot at being and then staying on top of His Kingdom message back in 1980, but we let it go to our egos instead to the people who needed God.

Since that moment, every mobile satanic unit has been in overdrive to quell the Gospel being preached to the world, with this nation using the surplus that God has given us for our own selfish reasons.  The “Miracle On Ice” game was the perfect eyewitness account that should have lit up the world for God on every level in every country around the world; instead we bought our own small versions of that flame and lit it for ourselves as a symbol of “look what we did”.  Subsequently, every Christian society around the world began to drain God from its livelihood, walking on its own and accepting transfusion after transfusion of the world in His place.  Each time a person ends their life for ANY reason or any divorce occurs, each lie to another, each violent act against another, another conflict, another deep wound afflicted upon another represents the true “Miracle On Ice” being transformed into a sick and disgusting Miracle being placed on ice.

Originally, this article was going to feature Ezekiel 38 as its reference point, since then God has expanded this reference point to His entire Word because it is through His entire Word that He repeatedly gives us example after example of what occurs when His people choose the world instead of Him.  Yes, it is our gift of choice He gave us that allows us to make such decisions, but it should be crystal clear that when we make such choices to go with the world that bad things occur and that when we choose the Ways of God things so much better for our lives.  God has also given us the ability to discern the difference between the two conditions too; remember that is what we chose to enact way back in the Garden of Eden.  God is our connection to the Miracle that He has for us, He ALONE is the connection for this Miracle.  Events that are taking place in the Middle East are ones that He has foretold in His Word, we should not be frightened but aware of why things are falling into place, and they are not out of control at all.  On the same level, we cannot forget why things are falling into place either, our sin is taking us into different directions and we are no longer united as we should; so be it, it is our choice but we cannot remember that through our selfish and worldly actions and choices we are bringing forth God’s Word to fruition so do not complain.

We have made the decision to live out our governmental lives and our personal lives on a secular level, our past President declared that statement with little or no resistance fought.  We have forgotten the worth and overall value of what the Miracle On Ice game meant to our lives and to the world, just as we have forgotten what the Miracle of Jesus Christ did for our lives eternally.  We have placed both primary events into the back portions of our heads and hearts so that our enemy can slowly bury their meaning so that we do not reference them any longer.  Church, you have done a fabulous job throughout our history in helping Satan bury such seminal points that should be continually referenced and God says it is time to stop hiding His Word and once again preach it to the dying world.  It is the job of the world and its leader to silence the Word of God and he has done a pretty good job of doing such a thing since his resistance has lessened as time has transpired.  While we are busy trying to rid ourselves of God and to follow the ways of our sinful hearts, we forget one important detail about God, His Kingdom, and His Word and that is this: no matter how much we wish or how much we try to rid ourselves of God, our actions whether we are doing God’s Will or not, His Word and Truth continues to strengthen for no matter what we may believe God shall prevail and His Word shall ever be True.

The questions that the Middle East is proposing today along with every other issue or condition within the confines of the world and its societies shall all come to pass at some point for it already has been Written.  The only true question that remains is this: are we going to speed up this time frame or are we (The Church) going to slow it down by advancing God’s Kingdom now ourselves or allow it to proceed in the manner of God’s timing.  Take a long and hard study of where our hearts are at Church and you will realize why God has been dealing with us through these articles concerning the conditions of our hearts.  We are sick and diseased and unless we change our ways and return back to Him these heart conditions of ours will produce a devastating heart attack that shall change our status as a nation forever and through this attack change the world and bring God’s Word into play quicker.  Repent, Church!  For if we do not, and then our Miracle On Ice that God gave us before shall be played upon words and changed to our miracle being on ice.

DLB