Lamentations 1:18
“GOD has right on his side. I’m the one who did wrong. Listen everybody! Look at what I’m going through! My fair young women, my fine young men, all herded into exile!”
“‘The Lord is right,’ Jerusalem says, ‘for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.’”
Americans are fortunate in their geological assets to be protected from protracted war such as Europe and the Middle East have experienced. But we have lost the future to hedonism and materialism and our children have gone into exile because of our sin. We have sent them to the land of nihilism and despair. They inherit immense economic and cultural problems or our making. Yet seniors, whose political and cultural decisions led us here, still see themselves blameless. How long before they truly see and are overcome with grief such as this?
Lord, I don’t know how to think about these days. The best parallel I can think of is 1930s Europe. Do we have WWIII coming round the bend? Please, help us! Heal us. Pour out your spirit upon your people to serve and help heal our land. What would you have me do/be right now? How can I prepare myself for the future? Show me. Please grace us with your healing touch.