Our Republic is in trouble. The grass roots movements against our moral decline are strong but not yet strong enough, nor are they rallying exclusively beneath the Lord’s banner.
The founding fathers of our nation understood that the Republic would stand only so long as its constituents remained “virtuous”. Virtue in this country was once rooted in Christian principles…the Law and Gospel of Jesus Christ. But these have gradually eroded at all levels…most alarmingly at the popular level! “We The People” need the work of the Spirit of Christ at the popular level in our land. Until this happens, our decline is assured and the fruit of our spiritual adultery will manifest itself at every level of national life and in all our institutions.
Many clamor for the electing of Christians to public office. Certainly this is a good thing. But we fail to remember that Josiah (unequivocally the most radical political and religious reformer who has ever agitated on the stage of world history), though he inaugurated deep and sweeping reforms in Judah as a godly man and King, was unable to turn the hearts of God’s people back to Him. They had the form of godliness but no power. Indeed, his body was not yet cold in the tomb before the Lord’s people overthrew everything he had worked so nobly and industriously and faithfully to accomplish. 27 years after his death, God swept His people, Israel, out of their land and into captivity.
No greater national constitution has ever existed in the history of mankind than the one God instituted between Himself and His ancient people, Israel. They had, of all things, the Covenant of the True and Living God! Yet they threw off His yoke in less than three generations. Indeed, His indictment against them was (and is) that they exceeded in wickedness by far the worst of the Canaanite nations which He had displaced before them!
And so, we must pray that Christ will once again be honored in this land. It’s a prayer we have every reason to believe that God will honor since He has given the nations to His Son as His inheritance.