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April 21, 2020
Zella Kotala
San Francisco
“Unless your people see signs and wonders, you will not believe” (John 4:43-54).
“Lo, I am about to create new heavens and new earth” (Isaiah 65:17).
“Every man should turn from his evil way and from the violence he has in his hand. Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we may not perish” (Jonah 3:1-10).
These recent quotations taken from the Bible seem to me to be the most apropos for the present time. We as a society have made mammon our god.
Our value system has to change if we are to survive. Many of our elected leaders do not put the good of the nation ahead of their self-glorification. Their volatile rhetoric and behavior debases their high office; their lack of compassion is appalling. Our moral compass has been lost or misplaced.
God relented his thirst to destroy Nineveh in days of old because, led by the king, the people repented and atoned for their sins.
Let us pray that this will happen in our age. Lord, have mercy on us.
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