Face The Whirlwind

Today I cant help but remember the words of Hosea when he said the phrase, "For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind."
The reason this comes to mind is because of the very distressing state of our nation. At this time, it seems like we are experiencing a great deal of lawlessness, and a disregard for order, rules, due process, and almost all the systems by which we usually govern ourselves. We not only have violence and rioting in the streets of many cities, but we have disorder and near chaos in our governmental chambers as well. This did not just happen overnight, nor did it happen because any one man was elected president. It is happening because it is the culmination of many years, decades of casting off restraint and freely indulging in the most serious sins. In our nation God is regarded as no longer relevant to public consideration.  His precepts that framed our culture and provided guidance and context for our laws and cultural norms have been rejected. We have allowed ourselves to be duped into thinking that there is no real consequences to personal choice. Moral relativism has brought upon us a whirlwind of lawlessness and confusion. We have gone passed the state of mind that says, " what is true for you may not be true for me so let's just get along," into a mindset that says, "it's true because I say it's true, and you are under obligation to respect whatever truth I have created."
With this as the prevailing attitude, is it any wonder that we are seeing the great wave of lawlessness that is drowning our entire culture? Democrats and Republicans have gone past the point of disagreement and hard nosed debate, to open hatred of one another. Hostility, demonizing, character assassination, lies, subversion, false witness have become common practice and the way to do politics today. 
The Bible tells us that all who practice sin practice lawlessness, and that sin is itself lawlessness. The lawlessness we are living in today, is the reaping of many years of personal lawlessness on the part of our citizenry. We ceased to govern ourselves on the personal level, so now we are unable to govern ourselves on the societal level.  Lawlessness prevails.  I can only think of one solution, and that is to pray for our nation, as we as the Body of Christ repent of our own sins. We must begin to weep over the state of affairs we see all around us. Pray for our leaders in spite of their shortcomings or viewpoints. They, like we, need the wisdom from God our Savior. A whirlwind is upon us, but more certainly, the Spirit and grace of God is with us also. This is our only hope today. As one of our leaders would say from time to time, "The answer is not in the White house, but in God's house."