Hosea 1- 6  Sadness and disappointment spread over me as I read these words.  The wife of Hosea and the nation of Israel, both have become harlots and adulterers.  God desires the faithfulness and love of His people, but they have run to other lovers.  Useless idols receive the worship and gifts that God had blessed His people with.  Yet He promises restoration and healing, compassion will return and the people will become His people again.  Why then am I so saddened?
I can see our country going down the same wrong paths that Israel went down.  Ch. 4:1b-3 " Because there is no faithfulness or kindness or knowledge of God in the land.  There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing, and adultery.  They employ violence,  so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes"  V 6 " My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  Because Israel rejected God's Word, they would lose their position as God's priest. They were multiplying their sins, they were not giving heed to The Lord, and a spirit of harlotry had led them astray. They were in deep depravity, their deeds so evil they couldn't return to God because they no longer knew Him.   Ch 5:15 " I will go away and return to My place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me"
America will languish and be destroyed because of the lack of the knowledge of God and the refusal to heed His Word.  We are heading toward the same kinds of depravity that Israel was judged and chastised for.   But America does not have the promise of God for restoration.
Oh God, You are gracious and merciful. Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness. Your mercy is over all Your works.  Including this nation.  Let America acknowledge You, heed Your Word, confess our sins, and seek You earnestly.  Revive us O Lord!  Make us a nation "under God".
Chastise those of our leaders who want to lead the people into sin. Bring them to repentence I pray. In Jesus' Holy Name.  Amen