Blessed is the Nation

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.” Psalm 33:12

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, former prisoner, and astute observer of both American and Russian politics, wrote the following summation on the moral and political decline of the old Russian empire: “If I were asked today to formulate...the main cause for the ruinous [Russian] revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”

Has America forgotten God as the changeless, authoritative arbiter of social and moral justice, the author of human life, and the Deity to whom we owe our absolute allegiance? The phrase “forgotten God” is found repeatedly in the book of Jeremiah. The persistent prophet accused both religious and civil leaders of abandoning God’s agenda and substituting instead an artificially contrived system that was morally bankrupt.

The cure has always been genuine repentance, turning away from all that counterfeits God. If America is to remember God, to put Him in the forefront of ethics and social justice, then believers must examine themselves routinely and set the example. A nation that remembers God is comprised of individuals who don’t forget Him in their daily agenda.

“It is the duty of nations as well as men to recognize the truth announced in holy Scripture...” -Abraham Lincoln