Can We Give Heed?

February 16

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD. I am weary of holding it in.

"I will pour it out on the children outside, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband shall be taken with the wife, and their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; also the aged who is full of days.

"Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down," says the LORD. Jeremiah 6:10-15

Oh, people! Do we see ourselves here? The people of America were blessed with a land that their founding fathers placed at the feet of Jesus at its inception and it thrived and prospered through its brief history until its people came to disdain the WORD OF THE LORD!

Can we say we are not under condemnation brought about by our covetousness? Can we deny this reproach when our nation is indebted beyond any debt of any nation in history? When our current leadership has more than doubled in five years the total debt of all the years preceding it?

Can we disclaim responsibility for this condition when we have stood silent while irresponsible and wicked men have sold us into slavery to debt? When they have bound our children and our grandchildren for generations to their lust for consumption and power?

Where is the voice of reason from the media? Where is the voice of condemnation from the pulpit? Where is the hue and cry from the citizenry? There is muted resistance at best and total silence at worst—as those who should be speaking out against such gross mismanagement of the resources of a blessed nation stand silent.

The condemnation of the Lord is just. The collapse of our house of cards will be swift if we do not pray the prayer of II Chronicles 7:14: If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.”