It's becoming harder and harder to trust other Americans and don't walk around our neighborhoods with the same sense of security and trust that we once had. Something is happening to our nation and it's not pretty. The statistics may say that crime is going down, but the indications are that those statistics must be missing the story somewhere since every day I hear on the news of another murder, another rape, or something else that makes me wonder where that came from.
The tarnishing of America is not just in the lowlands either. The mountain tops and peaks of America that once stood quite tall and handsome in their beauty have developed cracks as well. Our politicians seem to lack any sort of shame for their scandalous activities. And most church pulpits preach not the soundness of the gospel or of the truth of morality but instead a morass of of social justice and liberation theology.
But America is not beyond hope. God has blessed America in the passed and He could and will bless America again if America wants to be blessed by Him. The choice is ours but we have to take Him up on the offer. We have to seek Him. We have to pray. We have to turn from the things that are not beautiful and remember that he can give "beauty for ashes."
