In Hosea 11:7 is the sober warning, “My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to Him on high, He will not exalt them at all.” In this nation where our Pledge of allegiance still states “one nation under God,” humanism has erected itself to the point God might well describe the nation as a people who “are bent on turning from Me!” While referring to the trends and would-be-leaders engaged in current Presidential debates, Cal Thomas wrote: “What we used to refer to as morals have also been transformed in our celebrity culture into the meaningless word ‘tolerance.’ Truth has been sacrificed on the alter of tolerance. Everyone is now free to believe anything and everything, as long as it makes them feel good about themselves. Who are we to judge what used to be called ‘sin’? Character matters very little, as long as I get mine.” (The Oklahoman, “The United States of Trump,” February 2, 2016, p. 10A).

Legislators and the Supreme Court have tended to ignore and abandon the Bible as a code of ethics and morality relative to marriage, births, domestic fidelity, and varied stages of sin. That puts a severe cramp on our maintaining ourselves as “one nation under God!” The core problem is even deeper because corrupt communities and citizens “love to have it so” (cf. Jeremiah 5:31; II Timothy 4:3,4). We are on a slippery slope of submitting to sin at a national level, abandoning God and His Word in the process!!

Let us Wake Up, or God will do to us what has repeatedly been done to other nations. Note Ezekiel 16:50: “Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.” Psalm 66:7 states: “He ruleth by His power forever; His eyes behold the nations. Let not the rebellious exalt themselves.” Rather let all people recognize that “He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath” (Joshua 2:11). Let the Lord’s church, like salt and light, lovingly spearhead the leavening influence of a return to give God the glory for every good gift (Matthew 5:13-16; James 1:17). Jesus urges us to “abide in My word,” and that will set us free, putting us in His and God’s favor (John 8:31, 32; II John vs. 9).