What a season we live in! My, my, my – sometimes just watching the news can bring you down. There is so much up in the air and everything is happening so quickly. I know I am getting older, but wow, how do these young kids keep up? What kind of a world are we leaving them? And our grandkids – ugggh. I don’t even want to imagine.
I was talking to my husband this morning and I asked, “How are our kids and the next generation going to keep going with our nations morals being flushed down the toilet?” I am a conservative Republican Christian, one of the minority these days. I base my moral compass on what God says, what the Bible says, what Jesus did, and the life everlasting.
Thinking back on my parents, and my grandparents generation – what happened? Where did all our morals go? What do we even stand for anymore? Just because something is a majority doesn’t mean it’s right, right? Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.
I checked in with the 2023 Gallup polls and here is what they found;
Views of State of Moral Values in U.S. at New Low –
Story Highlights
- 54% say the state of moral values in U.S. is poor; 33% only fair
- 83% think U.S. moral values are getting worse
- 74% of Republicans say moral values are poor; 97% think they are worsening
So, what to do? For me personally, spread the Word. Live the Word. Love the Word. Testify of the Word. We all need Jesus. If this like on Earth is all we have, no wonder people are so depressed! There has to be more. We were made for more than this world! We are not even of the world, we are in it, but not of it. Let us remind ourselves and teach our children that this world is not all that. It will bring sorrow, tears, and disappointment. But the Good News is that this is not our home!
Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us. He will come back for us and bring us to our heavenly home! Ah what a day that will be!
“For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd;
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’
‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” – Revelation 7:17
QUOTES ON FINDING HOPE AMID MORAL DECLINE
- “Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.” -Billy Graham
- “You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.” – Job 11:18-19
- “My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.” – Billy Graham
- For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. – Jeremiah 29:11
- “You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It’s the home of your dreams!” -Anne Graham Lotz
- “Without Christ there is no hope.” -Charles Spurgeon
- But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31
- “Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life – which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.” – Billy Graham
- “The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.” – Psalm 147:11
- “Notice the word ‘hope” (in Psalm 62:5). The Hebrew term literally means “a cord, as an attachment.’ Every one of us is hanging on to something or someone for security. … if it’s someone or something other than God alone, you’re hanging on by a thread – the wrong thread.” -Beth Moore
- “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. – Psalm 39:7
- “Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.” – Timothy Keller
- “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:18
- “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.” – Jeremiah 17:7
Lord, open our eyes, open our hearts. Lead your sons and daughters back home. Help us shine Your light in this dark world in Jesus Name!