‘Tis the set of the sail
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Editor,
About 100 years ago, Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote some lines, which she entitled, “Tis the set of the sail.” The concluding two stanzas go like this: “One ship sails East, another West; By the selfsame winds that blow; ‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales; That tells the way we go.
“Like the winds of the sea, are the waves of time; As we journey along through life, ‘Tis the set of the soul, that determines the goal, And not the calm or the strife.”
The winds of change are blowing across America with tornado-like force. Almost daily, leaders in government, athletes in professional sports and people in various places of prominence and influence are announcing changing positions on moral issues which a few decades ago would have been catastrophic to their professional careers and totally devastating to their family and friends.
What is happening to America? We have forsaken the God of our fathers to embrace the immoral passions of lust and idolatry. We have lost our way. We call bad good and good bad. We say wrong is right and right is wrong. We applaud the sinners and scorn the saints. There is an ill wind blowing across America. As the Bible declares, if we sow to the wind, we will reap a whirlwind (Hosea 8:7; Nahum 1:3).
This is no time for finger-pointing or blaming others; we need to take a look in the mirror of God’s word, the Bible, to see how clearly God judges sin. He did in the days of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, Pharaoh in Egypt, Sennacherib in Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, and down through history God judges nations and individuals. When Moses told Pharaoh that the Lord said, “Let my people go,” Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him?” He learned very quickly why he should have obeyed. So will we unless we repent of our sins and set our souls to love Jesus.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
