Dow Passes 10,000

That was the news from last week. Murmur of economic recovery is everywhere. Everyday more hopeful news come out. Is the trouble over?

Not according to Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, the trouble we are in now is because of our sin: sin of corporate corruption, sin of violence, sin of sexual immorality, sins that fill and overflow in our land. The trouble we are in is God's judgment upon our nation for turning away from God.

And even with the recession, followed by 9/11, our nation has NOT repented. We have tried to cope with the problems, minimize its effective by propping up businesses, but WE HAVE NOT REPENTED. Sins still fill our nation. Immoralities have not decreased. We have not repented. Then, our trouble is not over.

God said through Prophet Amos (chapter 4) that He sent disasters after disasters to Israel to bring Israel to repentance, but "still you would not return to me." Therefore, at the end the nation would be destroyed and no more. Even after disaster after disaster, our nation also has not repented from our wicked ways and turned to the Lord. Thus, disasters will continue.

More troublesome is the relaxed attitude of Christians. Even Christians do not realize that the trouble is from the hands of the Lord. We have eased ourselves into the diminished life, (Human beings can adjust so easily!) instead of waking up spiritually to pray for our nation. We pray no more.

It is time to awake and pray for our nation. We must pray that our people would repent from our sins, turn from our wicked ways and to God in humility. We must pray for repentance movement to sweep through our nations, that people would voluntarily kneel on the streets of NY and repent before God to forgive our sins and heal our land.

This is a call for Christians to wake ourselves up from our spiritual slumbers and pray for our nation. We must intercede for our nation. Every Christian must pray, pray everyday, fast and pray, and pray for our nation that it would recover and be reestablished in the Lord. (Check http://www.weprayforamerica.com).