They're Not the Problem

”[I]f My people who are?called by My name will?humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,?then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land,” 2 Chronicles 7:14.

It’s so simple to just blame everyone else for what’s going on. However, Scripture shows us that they don’t hold the solutions (God does), and healing comes from a revival of the saved, not from the purification of society.

We always want to look to other solutions because we feel that everything around us is evil (which it is). However, the solution isn’t better government or more pure (but unsaved) culture. Both of those would be good, but they wouldn’t solve the root problem - which is sin.

A revival of Christians is what’s needed, not less nudity in films, less violence on the streets, a purification of (still secular) society.

Until we as Christians (me included) realize this, we won’t see the change that is needed. Scripture tells us this clearly in 2 Chronicles 7:14. Yes, that was written for the Jews, but also for us (2 Timothy 3:16).

If “they” aren’t the problem, what can we do about it? James 4:2b-3: “[Y]ou do not have because you do not ask.?You ask and do not receive,?because you ask amiss, that you may spend?it?on your pleasures.” When Christians’ motives become pure, we can see the changes that are needed.