Note: This has been pressing hard on my mind and soul. I kept it constrained to just a few lines.

Great Concerns

I have great concerns for our nation. All too often we focus on the effect and not the cause, the arrow and not the archer. What we don’t understand is that we are the reason and the cause of our own adversity. It is by our own hand.

“Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.” (Micah 7:13)

The land is desolate because of the inhabitants. We have, do, and will suffer the fruit of our own doings. But we hyper focus on the physical domain and don’t even look at or comprehend the spiritual. We as a nation are generally clueless to the cause and effect of righteousness and unrighteousness.

This is an example of the manifestations within the spiritual domain of Godly people.

“In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.” (Isaiah 26:1-7)

The cause is spiritual in nature, but the effect is played out in the physical. A sinful nation will reap sinful consequences. Here’s an example when God used the Assyrians as a tool to punish His sinful and rebellious people.

“O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.” (Isaiah 10:5-7).

But carnal man will only see the Assyrian. He will not understand that it is God using the Assyrian as a tool to chastise them. Carnal man will just see the evil army and pray to God for defense not realizing it is God that is the attacker.

People, even the land itself can be used to chastise or punish.

“Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.” (Leviticus 20:22)

The spiritual is played out in the physical. A sinful nation can only rectify the physical consequences in the spiritual domain. We are all familiar with the what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and why. God will allow bad things to happen to His own to chastise and correct them. The reprobate and apostate God will just punish.

We must identify the sin and honestly and earnestly repent. The United States founded by Godly people on a Godly mission has so strayed from the path. We have stumbled, diverted, and missed the mark. And that my friends, is the literal New Testament definition of sin.

It’s time to repent.

Bill Hitchcock