Deep disappointment -- the kind of disappointment my mother must have felt when she discovered that I hadn't done something that she had asked me to do, something important she was counting on me to do, and something that I had earnestly promised her that I would do.
I feel like we all had the responsibility to do something hugely important today. Something that perhaps wasn't easy to do, but something that was vitally necessary for the long-term good of our country.
And we didn't do it. When we needed to choose sacrifice, we were weak and we chose comfort. When we needed to look to the future and deny our need for instant gratification, we foolishly chose to close our eyes to the stark reality and instead clung stubbornly to our me first, hands out mentality.
Though this Scripture was written long ago, it is as true today as it was then.
15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord
your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His
statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18 I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore
choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:15-20 NKJV
May God have mercy on our souls.
May God have mercy on our souls.
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