I love my country.  Because I love my country, I am burdened for my country.  We are in a mess.

Like a levee break that started as a slow trickle through a small crack but turned into a full fledged water wall of destruction, our culture which was once slowly drifting from our moral base has in the last few years quickly drifted so far from it that all semblance of morality is gone.

Consider this warning from God:

 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20

God holds us, His children, responsible for this mess.  It isn’t our government’s fault, it’s not Hollywood’s fault, it’s not the education establishment’s fault, it’s not the media’s fault.  It’s ours.  After all, Jesus reminded us:

 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” – Matthew 5:13

Not we SHOULD be, but we ARE the salt of the earth, we ARE the preservative of our culture.  If our culture is rotten, the problem is with us.

With Jesus there is always hope. Transformation must first begin in us as individuals, then in our families, through our churches, eventually affecting our culture.  It starts not by changing Washington, but by changing ME.

The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ Kingdom Manifesto.  If we become Sermon on the Mount people, our culture will be salted and lit.  Read Matthew 5-7 daily.  Ask God to help you become that kind of follower.

Next week I will begin blogging on the Sermon on the Mount.  I am doing it for me.  I want to be  transformed.  I hope you will read along.