It is God alone who can read hearts. God gave this truth to Samuel in the long ago. God does not see things as men do but instead looks on the heart (I Sam. 16:7). The end of America or any nation is determined by God when He sees there is not enough righteousness to turn the nation around. How bad is America? If we are left to trusting the media it feeds on that which is bad. The question becomes does this represent all of America or is it just a few? There is no way for us to know the actual numbers which are involved. There is increasing amount of scandals in our national life. Those scandals represent individuals who enjoy power and will do anything to get or keep it. The scandals also show that some individuals live very immoral lives. The question becomes, does this represent all of America?
If God sees fit to bring our nation down we must know it would be because He gave up on the direction we are going in. On the other hand if it does not fall then God would see there is yet time to turn things around. This leaves us in the position of knowing how to view the world around us. We are not to love the world or the things in the world, such as power, greed, hatred or violence (I John 2:15). The message is the whole world lieth in wickedness (I John 5:19). Our view must be to focus our attention on where we live and strive to win as many as we can to the cause of Jesus Christ.
The rest of the world we must leave in God’s hands and devote ourselves to prayer for our nation. If we stay at home and do not vote then we in a sense believe God has given up on our nation. If we do what we can and cast our vote then we leave the matter of the movement of our nation in the hands of God. We cannot afford to be distracted from reaching lost souls, edifying the church and being benevolent toward all men. This nation has always needed the Lord and more so even now. Let us pray, vote and continue to work for the Lord daily.