During the presidential campaign in 1912, Woodrow Wilson said, “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.” Today, America fits this description. In 2014, the National Center for Education Statistics found only 18 percent of eighth grade students are proficient in United States history, 27 percent in geography and 23 percent in civics. America was founded on Christian principles, but those ideals cannot survive if not taught and reinforced.

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!

Lamentations 3:40

In today’s verse, the prophet Jeremiah gives the solution. Jerusalem and Judea had been destroyed by Babylon. Judgment had come because the people had turned away from God. But there was still hope even in judgment – if the people examined where they went wrong and returned to the Lord.

Are you concerned for the direction of the nation? If so, pray each day for Godly leaders to rise up and set the course for America back towards God. Pray also for those who do not know the Lord personally to develop a relationship with Him.

Recommended Reading: Joel 2:12-17