A Revival of Righteousness

​Millions of citizens in our nation are fussing, fuming, feuding, and fighting over politics.
 
No matter who is pushing agenda buttons, little, if any, progress is being made to restore our nation to the principles our founding fathers instituted in The Constitution and Bill of Rights.
 
The foundation of their deliberations and decisions were grounded in Christian truth and principles revealed in the Bible. Almighty God set America apart as a Christian nation to be a bright, shining witness to a world lost in spiritual darkness.  
 
I am emotionally frazzled, worn out if you will.  Maybe you are too. Why? Because men and women in authority and their Kool Aid drinking followers are missing the mark regarding what America should look and act like. Its like a person shooting a bow and arrow who strikes the target, but never hits the bullseye.
 
My friend, America’s greatest, deepest, and most pressing need is not political, social, racial, or economic. It is spiritual and moral.
 
So, what is the solution for our moral drift and spiritual waywardness?
 
I am glad I asked. Concerned Christians across America are faithfully and fervently praying for revival, and rightly so. But a revival of what?
 
A revival of righteousness is what our nation needs.  
 
To revive means to live again, to quicken. Righteous simply means acting in accordance with divine or moral law, justified. To be righteous is to be made right. Right what?  Right in the sight of the Lord.
 
God is serious about righteousness. The words righteous, righteousness and unrighteous are used no less than five hundred and ten times in the Bible. The word right is also used many, many times. God cares immensely about what is right or wrong.
  
A revival of righteousness is all about living again in right relationship with the Living God of the Bible and doing what is right in His sight.   
 
The wisdom writer Solomon makes it clear about what makes a nation great in God’s eyes. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.” Proverbs 14:34. Sin, choosing to disobey God’s Word and will is disgraceful, a curse that robs a nation of God’s favor and blessing. On the other hand, righteousness exalts, promotes, prospers, and blesses a nation. I like the blessing hand, how about you?
 
Christians are the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Righteousness is secured through God’s only Son who died on the Cross.  His blood, shed for the forgiveness of sins, makes the unrighteous righteous.
 
Getting our life right with Jesus makes our life right with God.
 
The Bible, God’s holy Word, is the blueprint for a righteous life and a country’s conduct.
 
What A Righteous Nation Would Look Like
  

• The God of the Bible would be reverenced, respected, worshiped and obeyed.,
• The Bible would be sacred, taught and obeyed for what it is, God’s Word.
• Freedom of worship would be firmly established as a sacred, God-given right.
• From the womb to the tomb, Human life would be protected, promoted, and celebrated.
• Marriage between one man and one woman for life would be honored and held in high esteem.  
• Sexual immorality, moral perversion, and promiscuous sexual behavior would not be tolerated. Sexual purity according to the Bible would be the standard of the day.
• Racial prejudice would be non-existent because God’s love for one another, regardless of skin color, would triumph over hate.  
• Law, order, and justice would be upheld with no respect to persons in any way.
• Corruption would be exposed and disposed by God-fearing authorities.
• Any form of abuse of other human beings would be swiftly dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.
• Our nation would be grateful to God for His abundant blessings in our lives.

 
My spirit yearns for and groans within for a Holy Spirit empowered revival of righteousness that would sweep across our country, purifying our hearts and cleansing us morally.  I would love to spend the rest of my days, raising up and handing off to my children and grandchildren a righteous nation. How about you?
 
Bottom line America: Being in right relationship with God and doing what is right in His sight blesses individuals and a nation.   
 
My fellow Christians and all who do not know Christ as your personal Lord and Savior:   Get right with God. Stay right with God. Live right for God. Live right for people in God’s holy name.  
 
Please join me in praying every single day for a revival of righteousness to spread like a spiritual wildfire from coast to coast across this nation we love and thank the Lord for.   
 
“How blessed are those who keep justice, who practice righteousness at all times.” Psalm 106:3
 
“For there they are in great dread, for God is with the righteous generation.” Psalm 14:5
 
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has formed for His own inheritance.” Psalms 33:12
 
‘If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray, seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.” II Chronicles 7:14
 
A Word For Your Week: America’s only hope is in returning to righteousness.