There is a spirit of lawlessness and evil settling over our society. It is motivating people to do bad acts. We need look only as far as the many recent poice shootings and the shootings of the news team in Virginia. How should we respond? What should we do? What is the source of this problem?
Politics, money, and passing new gun laws cannot solve our problems. I believe that God calls us to identify the problem as sin. Unless human hearts are changed, nothing in the world will change.
We are called into an evil world to preach Christ, and Him crucified. We need to show others what God has done for us. In isolation, this is difficult to do. When we think it all depends on us it's easy to come up with a thousand reasons not to press on. We need to take Christ into the world from a strong community of believers.
Who needs to hear from us? Everyone! When Jesus healed the leper, He was showing that His message was for everyone, even those on the fringes of society. Leprosy was symbolic of the sin permeating the world in the time of Jesus.
Our society is so ready to deny the existence of Satan and Hell. Many worship opportunities include bands, movies, the prosperity gospel, and feel-good theology where everyone's a winner and there are no expectations. If we can't name the sin that is overtaking our land, we will never be able to work to extinguish it.
I believe that it is time to call our nation to prayer - to pray for a revival of our national spirit and our spiritual health. We need to pray to God to stir the heart of our country and that the fog of evil be lifted. Let's gather our faith community together and take that first step. If we believe that our God can physically raise the dead, He can also raise a nation dead to sin. Deliver us from evil!
