America, where art thou?

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" (Rom.1:28)

Is it time to write a lamentation for America?

Have we passed the point of no return?

Have we become another revival of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Have we, a people so blessed of God, despised His goodness to the point of reprobation?

If reprobation is defined as "being void of judgement" or as being "thoroughly bad" do we as a nation fit that definition?

It is certainly evident that we have been desensitized to much of the evil in our day.
We are slowly but surely being led down the same path of destruction that previous civilizations and empires have travelled.

Our consciences have been hardened by continual exposure to ungodliness. Just consider the content of what we call "entertainment"! The minds of the people have become a dumping ground for vileness of every sort.
We are being boiled like the proverbial frog in the pot of water!

We have become a people that cannot blush or feel shame. Moral Relativism rules the day. Every man does that which is right in his own eyes!

Where is the church in all this? Where are the professed follwers of God?
Have we also been desensitized? Have we been conformed to the image of this world?
Is there no one to stand in the gap?

I am left in a state of conviction! Within me there is a sighing and a groaning, a desire for God's intervention.
I am confronted again with this question....what is man without God's prevenient grace?
The answer quickly comes...He is lost and undone!

But, I have a hope. It is a hope in God's restoring grace. This hope is expressed in the words of Jeremiah as he laments God's judgment on His rebellious people.

He prays...."Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old." (Lam.5:21)

I pray that we will be "turned back unto God" rather than "turned over to a reprobate mind"!

O' God, turn us back to thee!