Perhaps you have noticed that we are becoming a nation without laws, or at best, one whose laws do not apply to everyone equally. There is corruption among our leaders, and widespread sin is on the rise. It is relatively common now, to hear officials say emphatically that another, or several more, 9/11 type terrorist attacks on our soils are inevitable, and that a major economic earthquake is imminent.
While no human knows what tomorrow holds, perhaps we should stop to consider whether our present state is an evidence of God’s judgment on our nation, and if so, Why? What have we done? Abraham Lincoln said it best:
“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by a history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
The awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has grown, but we have forgotten God.”
The Bible says very clearly, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD… (Psalm 33:12).” But to sinful Judah God said, “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger… (Isaiah 1:4)” Is this now America’s standing before the Lord?
And what can we do if this is judgment? We must learn quickly, and repent.