AH! SINFUL NATION!

AH! SINFUL NATION!

Dear America, perhaps you should read Isaiah chapter one.

Isa 1:4-7

4 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, they are gone away backward.

5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

           Did God comment on the Jews’ declining culture or was it more than that? I think it was certainly more but the root of decline is sin and rebellion against the Lord. Who can dispute that when we see it so clearly in our own culture? We have gone away backward. We have wounded ourselves. Like drunks who fall upon the glass of their own broken bottles, we do not feel it until it is critical. 

           Did God comment on the Jews’ illegal alien problem? Perhaps not in the same way that America is suffering the flood of aliens easily crossing our unprotected borders, but the fact is that “strangers” are devouring our resources at an alarming rate. The cause is not political ignorance and ineptitude, although there is more than enough of that, the cause is sin. Sin is behind all of our ills.

           Did God offer a remedy? Did He suggest ways to repair the damage? Did he recommend one political party over another? No, God is above all and knows that politicians are not the answer. It is not better education, eco-friendly everything, or more tolerance that will provide a cure. No, the cure is righteousness, holiness, and purity.

Isa 1:16-18

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Dear God, please heal our land. Let it begin with me. AMEN