From Faithfulness to Faltering: The Urgent Need for Revival in America
Isaiah 1:21
How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
I see in our text a striking parallel between what happened to the nation of Israel, and what is happening to America today! Sadly, what used to be known as a shining city on a hill is quickly and surely losing her glory and her honor! When we begin to forsake our Godly heritage for the almighty dollar, when we trade in purity for popularity, when we replace the house of God with our favorite hobbies, and when we shamelessly glamorize sin on a national scale on all of our major media outlets, then we should not be surprised with the increased crime rate, the ever-increasing epidemic of STD’s amongst our youth, and the highest divorce rate this world has ever known!
The very fabric of our society has been ripped to shreds by unfaithfulness to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who made us the great nation that we were in the first place. How does this happen? How does a nation so quickly and so rapidly decline from where she used to be just a few decades ago to where she is today? The answer is found in Proverbs 14:34, where the Bible says, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” The truth is, no matter how big, bad and tough we may become, we are never immune to the law of reaping and sowing as it pertains to our sins. As the songwriter once said, Sin will take you farther than you want to go! Even as this is true on a personal level, it is also true on a national level.
Isaiah 2:4 warns that God will judge among the nations! Our leaders had best get back to God, before we lose America as we know it today! More than we need political reformation, more than we need fiscal responsibility, and more than we need religious rhetoric, we need a national sin killing, Savior exalting, Spirit filled revival to shake our country! I admonish each of you to get down on your hands and knees today, and beg God for revival!
2 Chronicles 7:14 still says, “If my people, which 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.” People of God, if each of us will do our part, we can make history as the generation that brought America back to God! Will you do your part?
~ Pastor Gary Caudill
How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
I see in our text a striking parallel between what happened to the nation of Israel, and what is happening to America today! Sadly, what used to be known as a shining city on a hill is quickly and surely losing her glory and her honor! When we begin to forsake our Godly heritage for the almighty dollar, when we trade in purity for popularity, when we replace the house of God with our favorite hobbies, and when we shamelessly glamorize sin on a national scale on all of our major media outlets, then we should not be surprised with the increased crime rate, the ever-increasing epidemic of STD’s amongst our youth, and the highest divorce rate this world has ever known!
The very fabric of our society has been ripped to shreds by unfaithfulness to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who made us the great nation that we were in the first place. How does this happen? How does a nation so quickly and so rapidly decline from where she used to be just a few decades ago to where she is today? The answer is found in Proverbs 14:34, where the Bible says, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” The truth is, no matter how big, bad and tough we may become, we are never immune to the law of reaping and sowing as it pertains to our sins. As the songwriter once said, Sin will take you farther than you want to go! Even as this is true on a personal level, it is also true on a national level.
Isaiah 2:4 warns that God will judge among the nations! Our leaders had best get back to God, before we lose America as we know it today! More than we need political reformation, more than we need fiscal responsibility, and more than we need religious rhetoric, we need a national sin killing, Savior exalting, Spirit filled revival to shake our country! I admonish each of you to get down on your hands and knees today, and beg God for revival!
2 Chronicles 7:14 still says, “If my people, which 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.” People of God, if each of us will do our part, we can make history as the generation that brought America back to God! Will you do your part?
~ Pastor Gary Caudill