For a generation we have legalized “doing away” with the inconvenient unborn—we call it “abortion.” We spare our spotted owls; we love our trees. But our unborn are referred to as “fetal tissue” and that tissue simply doesn’t seem to rise to the same level of protection. Spotted owls were worthy of decimating an entire logging industry on the west coast, but our unborn in the womb are in incredible danger if discovered to be “an inconvenient truth.”  However, a fetus is more than a biological piece of tissue—he or she is a living soul from the moment of conception. Calling murder by another name doesn’t change the fact that it remains murder. 

We’ve been blessed as a nation since our inception but now we are treating our country as a fetus—a lifeless piece of tissue we can abort at will.  God has blessed us as we have taken our stand with Israel as a nation. We’ve defended her, supported her, called her our friend and God has prospered us as a nation. But in the past several decades we have pursued a policy to push, manipulate, and intimidate Israel into giving away a part of her land in a futile attempt to grasp at peace with neighbors devoted to wiping her from the face of the earth.  When a nation attempts to break Israel apart, that nation is no longer blessed. (Joel 3:2) 

We’ve chosen to walk away from God, the Bible, His ways. We have kicked God away from our schools, removed the 10 Commandments from our Courtrooms and public life; we choose a life of avarice, lust, pornography, drugs, drunkenness; indeed, we are drunk with our own selfishness. Too many of our politicians seem committed to personal pocket lining and pork barrel projects. As a country, we seem determined to have as little of God in our lives as possible.  A recent survey from the George Barna group revealed that 9 out of 10 who call themselves Believers have NO lifestyle different from the lives of non-believers. Tragic indeed. 

How can we expect any result but grief-filled judgment at the hands of our loving God?  Our economic catastrophes; our natural disasters—tsunamis, hurricanes, mud-slides, horrific fires, devastating floods, and too many unexplainable plagues and illnesses/infections that mutate out of reach of the antibiotics used to treat them—how can we NOT stop long enough to consider if these be the hand of God in judgment on our land?  How can we not come to our knees in repentance?  It is not popular today to speak of the “judgment of God” but as a nation we need to face God, come to our knees, and cry out in repentance for our many sins. “Dear Jesus forgive us for turning so tragically against You and Your ways. Heal our land, oh Lord, we pray.”

I urge you to examine 2 Chronicles 7:11-16 which tells us that if we will turn from our own ways in repentance, that God will hear us, answer our prayers, and heal our land. Church, let us pray.