OUR FADING MORALITY!

OUR FADING MORALITY!

2 Chron 7:13-14

13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

14 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.

           Our part of the globe is currently challenging a record for the most consecutive days of temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. To say that it is hot is an enormous understatement and we have not had rain in so long we are rationing water! The 13^th verse of our well known revival portion specifically mentions the lack of rain and offers a remedy in verse 14. Part of that “formula” is that Christian people “turn from their wicked ways.”

           USA TODAY published one of its colorful front pages last week detailing how America has not only grown dramatically in population over the last two decades, but has radically changed ethnically, geographically, and culturally. The most costly of the many changes is the fact that having children has become increasingly detached from marriage. Illegitimate births for all Americans have risen from 26 percent in 1990 to 41 percent today “and could be headed higher.” Among Hispanics, illegitimacy is 53 percent, among blacks it’s 73 percent, and among whites it has risen to a shocking 29 percent. (Quoted from Heritage Alliance Web site)

           Jesus honored marriage by performing His first miracle at a wedding at Cana in Galilee. It might even be said that God performed the first wedding by bringing the newly formed Eve to the amazed Adam and then told them to be fruitful, to multiply and to fill the earth. It is clear by even a casual perusal of the Bible that children should be born into families. The shocking way that we are ignoring God must eventually be met with stern consequences. Yet, His promise is that when we sincerely turn to Him and pray that He would “hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Dear Lord, listen to your children praying. Grant to us a cleansing for our heart and a healing for our land. AMEN