Cry Out! Spare Not!: Asking For The Old Paths

"Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country."

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned this prayer from our public schools. Could there be a link between the removal of that simple prayer and many of the social, economic, and political crises this nation now faces?

To help answer that question, we need to be mindful of just how unique America is in all of human history. Our longevity alone makes us remarkable. Our constitutional democracy operating under the same governing documents for over 200 years is unparalleled in all of world history?though that is not the most significant legacy left to us by our founding fathers.

More valuable are the ideas and principles on which they founded this nation, principles that have produced the greatest degree of human liberty, freedom, and prosperity that any nation has ever experienced.

But all is not well in America. I don't have to tell you that. Still, of all the challenges facing our leaders today, one strikes at the very heart of our national health and goes to the root of our problems. And as you're about to see, it has quietly but steadily produced the widespread violence, anger, hatred and corruption that have led to the social crises we face today.

We're not the first nation founded by the agency of God's hand to find herself in the midst of great moral decay. The prophet Jeremiah looked around and saw a similar state of affairs in his day. Listen to his diagnosis recorded in Jeremiah 6:15:

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

In verse 16, Jeremiah proposes the remedy:

Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

The prophet is saying, "When things don't go well, when the Lord's blessing isn't apparent, think back to when times were good and go back to those old ways."

America needs to return to the ways that kept the hand of God firmly and obviously upon this great nation. Ways that kept the American dream within reach of anyone willing to work hard enough to pursue it.

Serving the King and His People,