Can our Country be Saved?

Do you feel like “we” are losing our country?  Do you feel as if our country is in a pattern of moral decline?  Are you worried about the direction our country is headed?  A recent poll had over 75% of Americans saying that they feel our country is headed in the wrong direction.  I would agree with that sentiment and affirm, we are indeed headed into darkness.

The Apostle Paul talked about the “last days.”  2 Timothy 3:1-9 NKJV  But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: [2] For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, [4] traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! [6] For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, [7] always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [8] Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; [9] but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

Paul sounds as if he is describing life as we know it today in the United States.  It is a shame when Paul’s description of behavior sounds like much of the political leadership of our time.  Indeed, most Americans have little to no confidence in the politics of our time, as well as most of our public institutions.  The question is: “What should we do about it?”  (Both as individuals and as a corporate body of Believers)

I believe that we should be doing two things: Firstly, we need to understand that the prophetic words of the Bible will come true.  They are God inspired and will come to pass.  So, according to God’s Word, the last days will be perilous.  It is a fact, and yet there is hope.  Jonah was sent to the wicked city of Nineveh to declare God’s judgment against them.  After Jonah “ran away” from his mission and was unceremoniously set back on the path of obedience; he delivered God’s words to Nineveh.  An unexpected thing happened.  The city believed that God’s judgment was coming and from the King on down, they repented.

Secondly, we need to realize that judgment begins in the house of God.  What does that mean?  It means that we need to make sure that our house is in order.  We need to be uncompromised by the world in which we live.  We need to be living examples of 2 Chronicles 7:14. “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 I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Our call to action:

1. Humble ourselves
2. Pray and seek the face of God
3. Repent and turn from sin
4. Watch God bring healing to our land

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