The One Thing That Will Protect Us from Terrorism

by Marnie Pehrson Kuhnsin Faith, Freedom, Overcoming Obstacleson Posted on

heal their landPeople are scared, rightly so. Our government doesn’t seem to have the ability to protect us, yet people continue to cry to political leaders for aid. I do not believe this is the answer. There IS an answer and I will share it freely with you in this post. But first a little explanation …

After 9/11 people turned to God, cried for help, and many Americans had a renewed sense of their need for God’s guidance. In the following years, through the hand of Providence, there were very few attacks on US soil…

Until recently … Everything is escalating as if someone lifted a hand of protection. (One might ask what has changed? But I’ll leave that for you to ponder.)

How are people responding to increased terrorism? After Paris, verbal attacks on people posting social media comments about “praying for Paris” have gone viral. After San Bernardino, headlines read “God isn’t fixing this.” People’s hearts have hardened alongside their enemies.

Rather than turning to God like they did before, people are turning from Him. This is typical human nature. We think “God isn’t listening” or doesn’t exist because He doesn’t instantly respond to our cries or make everything a rosy ride.

But I’m going to ask a few hard questions:

  • Did our cries to God in our time of crisis after 9/11 create an internal change of heart?
  • Did our actions change for the better?
  • Did we turn, as a nation, from our wicked ways?
  • Did we transmit that change of heart to our children?

Many individuals did, but as a nation we have become increasingly perverse.

Our wake up call to repentance didn’t make a deep enough, lasting impact on our hearts and actions as a nation. (Yes, God uses our enemies’ choices to wake us up. He turns them to our blessing when we turn to Him. It’s not me saying this. Read the Bible. It’s all over the place.)

God Deals with Nations Differently Than With Individuals

There is an important distinction we need to be aware of in how God deals with individuals versus nations.

“As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.” (George Mason, summarizing discussions on the floor of the Constitutional Convention)

National calamities are not discriminatory about who they touch. The sweet, kind and innocent alongside the perverse and corrupt are affected.

We don’t like this concept, but nevertheless it is true. Truth isn’t always palatable. Bottom line…We pay a price as a nation for national sins.

What About the Innocent Victims?

It’s my belief that God has a way of setting things straight for those individuals who, through no fault of their own, are caught in the fall out.

We are eternal beings traveling a microscopic mortal portion of our existence. There is a sweeping canvass of eternity and an unfathomable, infinite atonement that will set everything straight in the end.

In the here and now, rejecting God and denouncing prayer is not the answer. It’s like sinking the only life-raft sent to save you.

Our Only Protection Against Terrorism

As a nation, we must not only cry to God more than ever, but we must also experience a might change of heart through our Creator — a change so sweeping we would give away all our sins to KNOW Him, a change so poignant that we have no more desire to do evil, but to do good continually.

Then we may claim His promise, “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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14

With God on our side we have this promise:

“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” (Isaiah 54:17)

I testify to you that THIS is the ONE and ONLY answer to what we are facing.

About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns

Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.