II Chronicles 7:14-16 “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. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
This coming Monday, March 25th, marks the 11th anniversary of the start of the PLUS ministry. It was birthed from a passionate concern about the errant direction our nation was headed then, and those concerns have only intensified during the last 11 years. We are facing an acute and a chronic crisis.
On that first week of PLUS, I posted the following:
“Leadership consultants remind us that ‘a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.’ The meaning behind this statement is quite simple — the worse the situation, the more incentive there is to reflect upon badly needed changes. Failing to change course under such dire circumstances piles tragedy upon crisis.
Reflecting upon the situation in which our nation finds itself, it is difficult to describe it as anything but a crisis. It is an economic crisis and a political crisis; it is a moral crisis and a value crisis; it is a leadership crisis and a followership crisis. Yet, while the situation worsens, the nation continues to diverge from God without considering the correlation because between our unfaithfulness and our unfruitfulness.
We need national-level healing in our land that comes from a permanent change of direction toward humility, prayer, faithfulness and righteousness. Fortunately, the model of salvation-producing repentance should be familiar to us, one in which we reverse our direction away from the world and towards God.”
Today, we see crisis upon crisis, and tragedy upon tragedy. We have entered a perpetual vicious spiral that is dragging our society downward. While not a perfect correlation, the World Happiness Report released this past week reinforces the tragic tumbling of American society. Though many don’t realize it, the root of our problems is our eagerness to increasingly untether from the stability of foundational principles and unmoor from the surety of Biblical truths. Instead of eagerly running towards the Lord, we sprint away from Him.
PLEASE PRAY FOR AMERICANS TO REASSESS OUR RECKLESS REMOVAL FROM OUR FOUNDATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TO RECOGNIZE THE REQUIREMENT FOR A RAPID RETURN THROUGH REVIVAL. If we don’t, we will continue to see a society characterized by crisis upon crisis.
