Well, God could send us a George Whitefield or something like that. It would take a supernatural event to make the kind of difference that is needed. That's what I'm thinking anyway. I don't see how you reinstate any kind of moral foundation without that sort of power behind it. People love their fallenness to o much.
It figures of course that we are at the threshhold of the very last days, just a step over and we're into it, the church raptured if the pre trib scenriou is accurated, and the rest of humanity left to suffer mightily for their sins.
If we are that close to the end it makes no sense tht we could ahve any kind of renewal or revival that would take us back to our moral foundations. Unless, it just cooccurred to me, for the purpose of reaping a greater harvest than we would without it. That is, right now the church, the believers, seem a very small number compared to what we could be or have been not too long ago even. A revival would bring many into the church and then we'd have a lot more in the rapture.
But just focusing on what it would take to take America back to the condidtion described by De Toqueville and envisioned by the founds as necessitating a strong moral people, moral and eligious people, just in an dfor itself. Just to imagine that much, what would it take?
I was thinking the essential thing is the Fear of the LORD. What is that but the sense in the individual that there is a God who is watching and who judges our thoughts and deeds on the basis of His moral law. That's what he fear of the LORD is all about, keeping the individual afraid of deviating from a righteous response in every situation because God is real and Hell is real.
That's what we've lost.
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