The word of the LORD came to me: “If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.” (Jeremiah 18:5–10, NIV 1984).
My Musings – I see the United States as a nation that was “built up and planted” by God. One with a rich Christian heritage that has done much good in the world, albeit not without some blemishes. But in my lifetime it has increasingly “[done] evil in…
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