No Knowledge of God

On Sunday night, we talked about the 6th commandment and how we, as Christians, are charged with defending and preserving life. We talked about the implications of this commandment on topics like war, abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and several others.

Near the end, I read from Hosea 4:2, "There is...no knowledge of God in the land; [instead] there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed."

I was reflecting on how much this describes our culture.

Just today, I was reading in the news about 50 Colorado high school students who walked out of class because they refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance with the line, "one nation under God."

And then I was reading the headlines for the other stories in the news: murder, immorality, murder, adultery, murder, rape. Only a handful of stories were actually NOT about murder or sexual immorality.

That may be a small and simple example, but it IS an example, nonetheless, of how there is no knowledge of God in the land; and, what do we see instead? we see "swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery." We are turning our world into a hell on the earth. There is no knowledge of God...and evil abounds.

There isn't a POLITICAL problem in the U.S. The Republicans or the Democrats aren't the problems; but neither are they the solutions. There is a SPIRITUAL problem in the U.S. And it demands a SPIRITUAL solution. We don't need to spin our wheels searching for the solution to our world's problems. God has already provided one--the Lord Jesus Christ, dead for sinners. Join me in praying and living that His solution might be seen, understood, and embraced.