The United States of America is no longer the nation that she once was, a nation that honored and feared God, that stood for righteousness and justice, a nation that fought for those who suffered from tyranny and persecution, a nation that valued and honored human life above all else. She once allowed the Scriptures to be read in her public schools and prayer could even be heard from the loudspeakers but now, she has fallen away and is struggling to regain her footing on the world's stage. Men have ravaged her, allowed her to be abused by opening her boarders wide and shed the blood of innocent children in the womb.
In Jeremiah's day we read of the similarities that he was facing with his nation, Judah. Israel, the ten northern tribes to the north, had already been taken captive and the southern kingdom of Judah yet remained with its capital being Jerusalem. The nation had left her God and had degraded into following the wicked ways of its counterpart Israel. Jeremiah says,
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13).
The Israelites had forsaken God, who was the "fountain of living waters" and had made them their own cisterns to hold water. But Jeremiah says that they were broken cisterns, that cannot hold water. They are a mirage - seemingly there but not in reality. Cisterns that are broken and cannot hold water. They were living with dry cisterns, and the reason was because they had forsaken God. They had forsaken His ways and serving Him. They tried to make their own way, but in the end, it just resulted in dryness, broken cisterns that hold not water. What was the answer for them? It was to come back to the God they had forsaken to obey His commands and walk in His ways. To restore the ancient foundations.
This I believe is a parallel to the United Sates of America. There are many changes that are happening right now in the good old US of A and many people are feeling shaken. Yet the righteous foundations are being restored, the borders are being closed to those who would seek harm to America. The years of wasteful spending are being reigned in, and corruption is being rooted out. And I believe the best days of America are to come. Living waters will flow again and she will stand strong under the mighty hand of God. Yes, I believe God spared the current President's life for this time. So that America could be saved and once again strand strong on the world's stage and be a beacon of hope once again in our world.
May we pray for President Trump and for the United Sates, that she continues to strand strong and honor God in everything.
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