The Problem With America Today

   I have written before of the Truth Project series that Mayre and I have been leading in home groups over the past few years. It is a series put out by Focus on the Family that looks to portray the truth claims of God over against what the world may tell us. What does God say in His Word as being true contrasts with our culture and the belief system of an increasingly secular world view.


   The last lesson was on the American Experiment and the system of government designed by those who founded America over 200 years ago. One of the major themes in this segment was how our country and its leaders have strayed from those founding principles and the resultant mess that we find ourselves in today.


   Then I found discovered a book entitled The 5,000 Year Leap, which is also about the principles that the founders held in common that allowed them to write the Constitution of the United States the way that they did. I am not that far into the book, but I am struck by the way that this diverse group of men came together to put this document together. 


   Were they saints and superhuman men? No, they were flawed just as men are today, but they were able to fashion a document and a system of government that has allowed America to be the light of the world. With God's help, they created a system of individual freedoms combined into a union of states that has been the envy of people around the world.


   But the farther out from those days of the founding that we get, the more these freedoms seem to be under attack and the notions that guided these men are trampled under foot. It does not matter whether the party in power is Democrat or Republican, we seem to be going further away from what has made America great. Our trust is in ourselves and the power of our government and not in the God that allowed us to live here. We seem to be throwing away our heritage that men and women have fought and died for over these past 200 plus years.


   So what is to be done? 


   "and my people, my God-defined people, respond by humbling themselves, praying, seeking my presence, and turning their backs on their wicked lives, I'll be there ready for you: I'll listen from heaven, forgive their sins, and restore their land to health."


   Perhaps I am the problem.