CONCERT OF PRAYER

Pray Week 856

“Destroyed Foundations”

…if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? Psalm 11:1-3

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A mourning dove built a nest in the upper steel racking where I work. The danger to her was very real as I stocked bulky product not more than two feet away from the nest. Yet she remained on her nest willing to die to protect her unborn chicks. God imbued the mourning dove with a sense to preserve the foundation of their species by selflessly protecting their young. What happened to us who are created in the image of God? Between 1973 and 2008 we systematically destroyed 50 million of our unborn children by our own hand and the carnage continues to this day as we legally destroy foundations of our future society.

The foundations of our nation are not rotting and crumbling from neglect, they are being intentionally targeted for destruction. Our public schools used to be safe and our children did not have to fear for their lives in school. But then again, prayer was not banned in our schools then as it is today.

It was not too long ago our national Pledge of Allegiance could be recited without censoring the words ‘under God’. It was not too long ago that we could pray in public places and the name of God and the Name of His Son, Jesus Christ could be spoken without persecution or censorship. Now His Name is allowed in public only when blasphemed.

In the not too distant memory, marriage was without question an arrangement between one man and one woman. This definition has been broadened and laws against public immorality are being repealed. The foundations of morality as defined in God’s Word are being removed from our nation. All that God’s Word describes as an abomination before Him is being embraced by our increasingly secular humanistic society.

How do we, as followers of Jesus, process right and wrong in a world that tells us there are no absolutes? How do we proclaim the need for eternal salvation through Jesus when what was once deemed to be sin and wrong is legislated as normal and right? Far too many Christians simply give up and go with the easy flow of a crumbling society. They complain about the change, but do nothing to correct the course of it.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? The righteous can pray. The righteous can seek first God’s kingdom and His righteousness and lead others to Him by example. The righteous can become active in their spiritual giftedness and lift the light of the Lord high in this dark world. The righteous can work to rebuild the crumbled foundations with the sword of the Spirit in one hand and the tools of their trade in the other. The righteous can be active and not passive in their faith, government, schools and workplaces. The righteous can say as Joshua did, ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord’ (Joshua 24:15) and then live and act accordingly.

May the Holy Spirit empower you to be a foundation rebuilder in His Name and to the glory of God our Father.