I do not mean this letter as an offense to anyone. I can only say the Lord has been pressing me to write this but I have been reluctant. Realize please I am telling no one what to do, that's between you and the Lord. I am simply conveying the message the Lord has impressed upon me. Like the message previous to this, I am but a jar of clay, I pray this is God's Word that comes forth and not my own.

What's wrong with America?

Every Christian wonders this in some manner. From abortion, to school prayer, to homosexuality, to school shootings, to TV not worth watching, we wonder. We want to do something about it. We see moral rot and decay gripping America. And we want to take a stand, we want to fix it!

Hmm, seems to me this was exactly the way I felt just before I became a Christian. I saw moral rot and decay in myself and I wanted to fix it. Yet the harder I tried the worse it got. The harder I worked the more frustrated I became at the lack of results.

Are we getting the picture yet?

This is exactly how American Christians have been. We have tried political action, protest marches, petitions, getting organized into this group or that. Here we are doing exactly the same thing as a body to fix our nation as we did as individuals before we became believers!

We must be stupid! Well, OK, just slow to learn.

What did it take for us as individuals to get our life turned around? We had to go to God. We couldn't have Him forced on us. Those who have lived through that nightmare know how that works.

Yet as Christians we are often trying to impose God on the nation! Isn't that what the Jews wanted to do? They wanted to make Jesus King by force! Yet God had another way, a better way.

{7:14} If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

Do we as Christians recognize yet that perhaps we have been trying to do God's job? We've been busy trying to fix America. We've been trying hard to "heal ourselves and our land". When will we humble ourselves and pray? When will we trust God to do what He said He would do if we would just trust Him?

I tell you the truth, America will get worse as long as we keep trying to heal the land. But if we will follow this one command, God will move! Here is part of what He has said to me will happen if we will do this...

{16:8} And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: {16:9} Of sin, because they believe noton me; {16:10} Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; {16:11} Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. John 16:8-11

He will convict the world, not Christians, but the world. We've been trying to convict the world of sin for a very long time! What do we see as the result? Instead of recognizing their shame, they take pride in it! We keep trying to do the Holy Spirit's job and we are failing miserably.

Does this mean we stop pointing out things we think are not moral? I don't know. Does this mean we stop being involved in politics? I don't know. Does this mean we stop being involved in this that or the other thing? I don't know.

What I do know is the message God has given me to share. We need to stop trying to be God to the world and let God be God. We need to simply humble ourselves and pray and God will move!

What God has told me is that what's wrong with America isn't the liberal media. It isn't corruption in government, it isn't judicial activism, politics, Hollywood, or any of these other things. What's wrong with America is that Christians aren't looking to God for the answer, they are trying to make their own answer.

We want America to change. But the truth is that's God's job. Ours is to ask and believe. Dare to believe with me that God will do it.

I pray these words serve to encourage you and not offend you.