We’re Lamenting the Wrong Things & Asking the Wrong Questions
by Edie Melson @EdieMelson
Everywhere I turn I see believers crying out against recent legislature. And while I do have personal opinions about events of these days—what I’m truly mourning is the fact that we’re no longer looking to God for morality, but to man.
I don’t believe it’s possible to legislate morality.
Don’t misunderstand me, we need to have laws and penalties for lawbreakers. But those fall under the headings of consequences and deterrents.
Each of us carries a foundational idea of right and wrong. It’s something that God has instilled within us.
You see, our conscience comes from God. It was created within us when we were formed in the womb. If we were just products of Darwin’s theory, then our conscience would be weighted with a foundation of kill or be killed—survival of the fittest. Instead, we have a different foundation.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at our laws. Take a look at our day-to-day interactions. We don’t reward bullies and those who look out only for themselves. Our belief system reflects something more than that. It reflects God.
We can stifle our conscience by ignoring it, and trying to re-educate it. But it’s still there, and when we once again turn our ear to that pure voice, it will spring back to life.
In these days, we each need to turn back—to look to God to dictate what is right and what is wrong. First as individuals, then as a country. When we make God our priority, then the other things will fall into place. We’ll interact with one another in love.
No, I’m not suggesting some type of hippy nirvana filled with a false sense of anything goes. Or that God-is-Love, watered down message.
I mean real love.
The hard kind.
The kind that calls forLoving our enemies.Forgiving those who wrong us.Holding one another accountable.Turning the other cheek.Standing up for what is right, whether it’s the law or not.
When we look to God for the answers, we’ll find unity.
Not uniformity, never that. God created each of us unique and special. But He gave us traits in common—with Him—and with each other.
So today, I’m praying for our country. And I’m not praying small. I’m not focusing on individual sins. I’m first praying about my own short comings and asking for forgiveness and a renewed sense of right and wrong. I want God to clean out the junk and put me back on a track to be more like Him. Then I’m asking God to reclaim this country as His—with His definition of right and wrong.
Can one person make a difference?
Maybe not at first.
But for a difference to be made, we must all begin alone, in a one-on-one conversation with God. Then, when all those individuals come together and return to God, absolutely.
Will you join me?
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14
Everywhere I turn I see believers crying out against recent legislature. And while I do have personal opinions about events of these days—what I’m truly mourning is the fact that we’re no longer looking to God for morality, but to man. I don’t believe it’s possible to legislate morality.
Don’t misunderstand me, we need to have laws and penalties for lawbreakers. But those fall under the headings of consequences and deterrents.
Each of us carries a foundational idea of right and wrong. It’s something that God has instilled within us.
You see, our conscience comes from God. It was created within us when we were formed in the womb. If we were just products of Darwin’s theory, then our conscience would be weighted with a foundation of kill or be killed—survival of the fittest. Instead, we have a different foundation.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at our laws. Take a look at our day-to-day interactions. We don’t reward bullies and those who look out only for themselves. Our belief system reflects something more than that. It reflects God. We can stifle our conscience by ignoring it, and trying to re-educate it. But it’s still there, and when we once again turn our ear to that pure voice, it will spring back to life.
In these days, we each need to turn back—to look to God to dictate what is right and what is wrong. First as individuals, then as a country. When we make God our priority, then the other things will fall into place. We’ll interact with one another in love.
No, I’m not suggesting some type of hippy nirvana filled with a false sense of anything goes. Or that God-is-Love, watered down message.
I mean real love.
The hard kind.
The kind that calls forLoving our enemies.Forgiving those who wrong us.Holding one another accountable.Turning the other cheek.Standing up for what is right, whether it’s the law or not.
When we look to God for the answers, we’ll find unity.
Not uniformity, never that. God created each of us unique and special. But He gave us traits in common—with Him—and with each other.
So today, I’m praying for our country. And I’m not praying small. I’m not focusing on individual sins. I’m first praying about my own short comings and asking for forgiveness and a renewed sense of right and wrong. I want God to clean out the junk and put me back on a track to be more like Him. Then I’m asking God to reclaim this country as His—with His definition of right and wrong.Can one person make a difference?
Maybe not at first.
But for a difference to be made, we must all begin alone, in a one-on-one conversation with God. Then, when all those individuals come together and return to God, absolutely.
Will you join me?
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14
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