Godly Guidance For Our Nation

Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)

13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me,
    the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

In these verses, we hear the prophet Jeremiah telling Israel that they have forsaken the Lord and have tried doing things on their own.

This reminds me, as Christians, that we have to rely and trust in the Lord. He doesn't forsake us and we cannot forsake him and try to do life on our own.  

As we face an election year with all the turmoil and attacks, both in the media and by terrorists, I have to wonder, as we view America and its leaders, have we forsaken God? Are we trying to establish laws and policies on our own, without any input from God? Is this the reason why we, as a nation, are divided or in fragments? What do we, as a nation, look forward to?  Could it be found in Jeremiah 2:19 (NIV)?  Are we going to reap what we have sowed as a nation?  

I am not a doomsday person, but as I read the scriptures, I am reminded of the trouble our nation is in and the trouble that could be avoided.  We, as Christians, need to have an attitude of repentance and pray for God's mercy on our country and pray for Godly guidance for our leaders.  

Jeremiah 2:19 (NIV)

19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding will rebuke you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter it is for you
when you forsake the Lord your God
    and have no awe of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

Common Sense; the Reprobate Mind

I have heard comments like this far too many times:

• "How could they think like that?"
• "That is not even common sense."

Maybe you have said something like that, or heard something close to it. Possibly when a politician or ruling authority makes a decision or ruling. IAnd even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;". In the margin of my bible it has a definition for "reprobate".  It says, "a mind void of judgment".  Or, we might say, common sense. 

n my bible reading the other day,  I was reminded of a verse.  Romans 1:28 KJV, "

In the first chapter of Romans we see how Paul writes that the people did not like to retain God in their knowledge and God gave them over to a reprobate mind.  Could that be the reason why we see such crazy decisions (or judgments) that lack common sense from leaders?  We have become a nation that does not honor God, or have just given lip service, certainly not worship to.  And now we have leaders and generations that have not honored God, but rather turned their back on Him.  And we have reaped a culture that is described in Romans 1:29-32. 

Romans 1:29-32    King James Version (KJV)

²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

³¹ Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

 

 

This is not a doomsday message.  I still believe in the grace of God.  Judgment will begin at the house of God, but it will also visit our nation as well. 

 

1 Peter 4:17   King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷ For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?