“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).
No individual or nation can live well by living wrong. For both persons and countries, the law of sowing and reaping is immutable. Physically-, spiritually-, and societally-speaking: If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind (Hos. 8:7).
Redefining Bible words like love, marriage, and justice, and/or replacing Bible terms like drunkenness, sodomy, and murder with “less judgmental” monikers like alcoholism, gay, and pro-choice, and/or brazenly calling evil things “good” and good things “evil” sow the seeds for a society’s abundant harvest of reproach and self-destruction.
History’s testimony is: EVERY nation which declines morally becomes extinct eventually. The Babylonians, for example, had a vast empire. Its capital city of dazzling architecture and extravagance was the glory of kingdoms (Is. 13:19). Its reproach of moral and spiritual filth and decay was divinely eradicated when God overthrew it like Sodom and Gomorrah; it was destroyed almost 25 centuries ago and has never been inhabited since (Is. 13:20).
Righteousness, however, will exalt a nation. Diligently following God’s blueprint for the home, the government, and the church is always the right thing to do. It is sowing seeds which grow into God’s abundant blessings.
