Broken Moral Compass

CNN Editor-at-large Chris Cillizza says Donald Trump planted the seeds of moral decay during his presidential campaign and is ignoring his leadership responsibility when the country is crying out for it the loudest.

Sorry – I have to clean up the coffee I just laughed out my nose – wait a second.

Ok, so these United States of America have so morally declined over the last eighteen months since Donald Trump was first openly accused of sexual misconduct that we are now in need of a moral compass in the White House? Did I miss something?

Did I miss the overwhelming unity of this nation against racial inequality that has occurred since the 1950’s?

Did I miss the rise of proactive corporate accountability that makes Title IX unnecessary?

Did I miss the national reckoning leading physicians and patients alike to move away from opiate abuse without required regulation?

Did I miss the cultural shift of criminals away from illegal gun usage in crimes?

No – I think not. Mr. Cillizza wants to pin the current moral condition on Mr. Trump but it’s been a long time coming. When America took God out of schools, when this country decided we would rather be rich than right, when we decided it was okay to murder over 1 million unborn babies each year, that is when our moral decay was cemented. That is when the seeds of immorality sown to Kevin Spacey and Stephen Paddock and Cecile Richards were planted.

We all sin and all sin is equal in God’s eyes. Murder and lies create an equally broken relationship between God and man that can only be reckoned through repentance and the blood of Jesus Christ. It’s we humans who force rank the evil of sin from a minor infraction to a crime worthy of death. But how does God see the moral decay in America? He has seen it before – and His response is not pretty.

“What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves…I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.” (Jeremiah 2:5 and , NIV)

I’ve said it before, the US is not Israel. We are not a chosen people by genetic ties; rather, we humans are all chosen of God, if we call Him “Lord” and accept his gift of eternal life. But if we don’t…

“’Therefore I bring charges against you again,’ declares the Lord. ‘And I will bring charges against your children’s children…But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols…My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.’” (Jeremiah 2: 9-13, NIV)

It’s going to get worse before it gets better, I’m afraid. But there is hope.

“If my people, who are called by my name, will h umbel 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.” (2 Chron 7:14, NIV)

It’s in black and white, folks. We can’t repent for Al Franken or Roy Moore or Kevin Spacey if in fact they have done what they are accused of, but we can pray for them and repent of our own sins. In fact, our own grass roots moral movement can sway the entire culture of America, if we believe what God said in Jeremiah to be true. So my challenge for us all today is very simple and it is this: Repent of our sins and pray for our nation so that God may find favor in us once more.

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” (James 5:16, KJV)