Lord Help America Find Her Way Back to You

So much hatred. So much anger. So much division. So much fear. It absolutely breaks my heart.

Speaking as an American here:

In America we have always disagreed. Even if I completely disagree with you I can still be respectful and we should be able to sit down with one another and share a cup of coffee at the end of the day because we are all Americans when the sun sets and when the sun rises we are all Americans. We have always accepted that every man is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness regardless of what side we were on.

The problem going on in our nation today is that we’ve simply lost our respect for our fellow man. We have no standards anymore among ourselves. Every man is right in his own eyes and with that type of thinking comes anarchy and chaos. If we disagree we shred them and destroy them while gloating about how we’ve slammed them, or really gave it to them if we feel we have beaten them in an argument.

What Robert F. Kennedy said still rings true today:

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.”

My kids and my wife are watching my every move and every word so what am I teaching them? The biggest testimony I will have at the end of my life is what I live out in front them each and every single day. When my kids grow older and have a family of their own how will they remember 2020 and beyond? What will they tell their children and so on?

I hope they will be able to tell their children that they saw mom and dad serve God through all of this with humility, boldness, compassion and love toward my fellow man without fear. Never compromising our faith even in the face of fear. Not living a life of perfection or tearing people down but humbly willing to serve and work wherever God has placed us even in the face of uncertainty and chaos.

Fathers your biggest testimony will be that of which your wife and kids are everyday. That’s where we make our biggest impact. How we talk to them. How we treat them. Christ died for His bride the church so how should we treat our wives? With a type of love that we would not only have the desire to live for them but to die for our wives as well. Christ said that children were a heritage of the Lord and blessed is the man who’s quiver is full of them so how should we treat our children? Our wives and children are our biggest blessings.

I’m not a perfect man and Lord knows I’ve stumbled many times in my walk with Him. But my prayer and hope is that we as a people can regain our respect and our empathy towards each other even in the face of uncertainty. Lord help us find our way back. Maybe, just maybe, if we can regain our humility, our empathy, our respect for each, just maybe America still has a chance.

Lord help us find our way back to you.