A Day to Remember

"If my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."

2 Chronicles 7:14

As we approach Memorial day, we have much to be thankful for in this nation. Yet, a country that was founded by a group of pilgrims who wanted religious freedom to worship God in the way that they saw fit so that they could be a "light unto the nations" has fallen very far from the mark. As a nation we have begun the abandonment of the faith of those who founded this country. Let us assess the State of the Union in the mirror of God’s Word. Homosexuality is accepted as simply "an alternative lifestyle." We murder babies that are socially inconvenient. We change marriage partners like a fashion statement. We have abandoned the sanctity of commitments in our families and in our businesses. Immorality and deceit have come to characterize the highest offices in our land. We have allowed God to be banished from public school classrooms and we have watched as religious expression is constrained under the auspices of "separation of church and state." Our mainline media takes pride in forming public opinion rather than informing it, which had been its sacred role in a representative republic. Our culture has disconnected character from destiny. Our entertainments celebrate adultery, fornication, violence, aberrant sexual practices and every imaginable form of evil. We have become the primary exporters of everything that God abhors.

Left undeterred, this nation will end up like every other nation before it. But, there is hope! If the church will pray and seek the face of the Lord, there is the promise that God can heal this land. That responsibility can never be legislated or promulgated from an earthly authority. It begins with each individual's heart. It is our mission to share the message with our friends, family and neighbors.

"Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name." - 1 Chronicles 29:11-13