Amen.
The real answer to our dilemma in this nation is outlined in II Chron 7:14
In my reading of the scriptures and study of history, the type of repentance and turning to God that we need to do usually occurs as a result of one of two things:
1) A spirit of revival takes hold and the people turn to God willingly. This is always the best.
2) God ultimately weighs in on the wickedness and chastises entire peoples and nations and the people then sometimes repent because they fear God’s judgments.
Of the two, throughout history, the 2nd is what happens most often because of pride and people enjoying the wickedness they have turned to.
Thus Thomas Jefferson’s statement,
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and theLord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Romans 3
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Amen..my friend.
Amen..........