Bible Discussion Thread

This Psalm is full of terror and hope. As we see our own nation falter and fail, we must remember that God's Covenant with America, which was first his covenant with New England, is a conditional covenant. It depend, in part, on our walking according to the grace received.

Whenever we turn our back on God's law and profane his name and follow after the totems of money or sensuality or vanity, his wrath will break out against us.

After seasons of patience and pleading which are set by his perfect justice and mercy, He will turn from us and break out against us and leave us to our own devises. He will, as the Psalmist says, show us "hard things."

So it is with America today. The nation Lincoln called "God's almost chosen people" has crossed the line. We have forsaken the LORD and he has withdrawn his favor from us. There is only one remedy, and it is "returning to the Lord with repentance, faith, and prayer; beseeching him to return to us."