America Return to the Lord

In Isaiah chapter 5, we find the parable of the vineyard, where God is speaking to his rebellious people, Israel. Now, while I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard, my well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill, and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choices fine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein. And he looked, that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard, what could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? We see in the parable that the Father's care over his people, Israel, was exacting. He planted them, he nurtured them, and cared for them, but they turned their backs on him. To take a desolate continent only inhabited by Indians, and to turn it into the most powerful nation on earth is surely the finger of God.

God blessed America from her beginnings with his favor. Her first institutions, like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, were built for the very purpose to train men for ministry and the spread of the gospel. God poured out his favor upon America as she grew, with great spiritual awakenings which shook the land in revival from coast to coast.

God prospered America and made it the richest nation on earth. A great missionary movement was launched from her shores as the youth of America gave their very lives to take the gospel to the heathen all over the world. Churches sprang up all over the land, which became beacons of light in the darkness.

God fought her wars and blessed her crops and rained down showers of blessings upon her. But gradually, the more prosperous she became, the less dependent she was on God. Soon the light of the churches grew dim, with liberalism and humanism and worldliness, until the church lost her authority in the land, where there was once a fear of God in the land, now there was no fear of God at all, where once the country used to look to God for guidance and to the church for direction, now she turned away from God because the church lost her direction.

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are now godless institutions that breed unbelief in the God of the Bible. The youth of America are a godless generation who have no moral compass. America decided to turn her back on God and enact laws to legislate him right out of our country.

We kicked God out of our educational system. We barred him from our legislative system and banned him from our halls of commerce, because our nation has rejected the God of the Bible. She is in moral chaos as she fast spins helplessly out of control.

And God says to her, what could I have done more than I have not done? Oh, America, return unto the Lord.