During this election season when many are especially focused on the state and future of our nation, let us cry out in prayer to the King of kings and Lord of lords.
“We are a sinful people, a people weighed down with iniquity. We and our children are utterly corrupted. We have good reason to weep before God over the abominations regularly committed among us. Because so much iniquity abounds, the love of most has grown cold. Yet in your grace you have not forsaken us.”
Isa. 1:4; Ezek. 9:4; Matt. 24:12; Jer. 51:5
“We have known our master’s will, but have not done it. So we deserve to be beaten with many stripes. Both as leaders and as people we have known the way of the Lord and the requirements of our God. Yet we have broken off his yoke and repudiated his bonds.”
Luke 11:47; Jer. 5:4, 5
“Is this the way we should have repaid you, O Lord? You have nourished and brought us up as your own children, but we have rebelled against you. We have been a foolish and unwise people. You are our Father, our Creator. You claimed us as your people even though you found us wandering and lost in a barren wasteland. You cared for us and guarded us as the apple of your eye. Yet we have proven to be a warped and crooked generation. We have not shown proper gratitude in response to the benefits you have heaped on us. So your wrath has rested on us.”
Deut. 32:5, 6, 9, 10; Isa. 1:2; 2 Chron. 32:25
“O Lord, if you should keep a record of our iniquities, who could stand! But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared. With you there is mercy. Indeed, with our God there is the hope of total restoration. For he is able to redeem his people from all their sin and all its consequences.”
Psa. 130:3, 4, 7,8
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O. Palmer Robertson
Dr. Robertson is a teaching elder. He is the author of several books and articles, primarily viewing the scriptures from the perspective of the history of redemption.
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