Will You Answer “Yes!” to His Call?

 

^13b ...for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

—The words of Jesus from Matthew 9:13b KJV

 

From before the foundation of the earth, God has called the men, women, boys, and girls that He created to come to His loving arms and receive His gift of salvation from sin and the assurance of eternal life once we pass on from this life to the next.

God desires our fellowship. He wants to invite us to turn from the sin that so easily besets us and return to His loving arms. God’s call is a clarion call. He greatly desires to send the Holy Spirit to bring us new life—to revive us. He longs for us to ask Him to fully restore us to an intimate relationship with Him.

Even as God calls us as individuals, He also calls our nation to return to Him. The founding principles of the United States rest on the acknowledgement of certain unalienable rights given to us, not by government, but by God. In the same way that God longs for our individual obedience, He also longs for our corporate obedience—corporate obedience in our families, in our churches, and in our nation.

Looking forward to the celebration of the bicentennial of the independence of our nation two years later, in 1974 John W. Peterson and Don Wyrtzen wrote a deeply meaningful cantata entitled “I Love America.” Literally thousands of choirs have performed this work over the years. One of the songs from this cantata speaks very eloquently to the call God extends to our nation to return to Him. I hope you find this song as meaninful as I do.

 

 

Will you pray with me?

Thank You, God, for loving us. Thank You for sending Jesus to be our Savior. Thank You for sending us Your Holy Spirit to dwell within us.

We acknowledge that we hear You knocking at the door of our hearts. More than anything we want to hasten to open the door of our hearts and invite You to come in and dwell within us.

We also realize that, as a nation, You call us to return to You. You long to send a great sweeping revival to bring new life to our deeply troubled land. Please hasten to do just that. We thank you for Your willingness to keep seeking men, women, boys, and girls to come to You.

Please continue to pour out Your mercy and grace in abundance. We thank You for Your great patience with us and for Your great love. And, we thank You for hearing our prayer in and through the precious Name of Your Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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