It is so easy to try to “fix” whatever ails us and to search out root causes for illegal immigration, wars in Europe and the Middle East, and the breakdown of the traditional family. Yet God’s Word tells us over and over through the prophets bold Old and New that repentance is what is sorely needed.

The US has become a moral trainwreck with transgender and gender fluidity being taught to pre-pubescent children (sometimes without their parents knowledge!), and school shootings, houses of worship shootings, and random shootings barely raise eyebrows any longer. Do not anticipate any agreement on gun control any time soon. Do not anticipate the removal (or some common-sense censorship) of violent movies, television, and video games any time soon. Conservative estimates indicate that 50% of men are addicted to pornography. This is a nation that has ignored and abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage. We have sown to the wind and reaped the whirlwind.

This morass did not happen overnight, and a needed culture change will not happen overnight either.

God’s Word tells us that He will heal us if we turn from our own ways, thinking our own thoughts, and share our time and finances with the truly needy. Since He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever, we can trust that He will  heal us – and our nation – if we turn to Him and rend our hearts with true repentance.