This is what happens:
– when a people chooses a succession of weak, inept, morally compromised leaders, thinking character really doesn’t matter;
– when it spends itself beyond bankruptcy, thinking that war is a relic of the past;
– when it forgets economic reality;
– when it ceases to believe in God;
– when hedonism becomes the highest pursuit;
– when basic morality is attacked on every side;
– when male and female are matters of opinion;
– when the church invests more in the City of Man than in the City of God;
– when citizen is set upon citizen;
– when generations are not educated in history or in the humanities;
– when knaves are honored and good people are mocked;
– when Bibles are unread and churches are empty;
– when a nation no longer believes in itself;
– when people invest more of themselves in fake worlds than in real ones;
– when they believe that all roads lead to heaven or imagine that heaven doesn’t exist;
– and when they flippantly use the name of Jesus as a swear word rather than as a prayer.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
