On Sunday, May 17, I had the privilege of kicking off the Rededicate 250 gathering in Washington DC by declaring the following “America is not done with God and God is not done with America.
God is up to something. Hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered together, not for a protest or a political rally, but to pray. They gathered to give thanks and to rededicate this nation to the God who blessed it when it was founded.
The media may not have seen it coming. The polls did not predict it. But people of faith showed up anyway.
The idea that spirituality is dead in America is a misnomer. I don’t believe America is in a spiritual decline, but rather, that we are right on the precipice of awakening. We are seeing Generation Z turning to Jesus in record-breaking numbers. Bible sales continue to increase, and church attendance is rising.
But we shouldn’t be entirely surprised.
Young people are exhausted from doomscrolling. Celebrity culture is dying. I’ve talked to many members at my church who confirm that the vain pursuit of wealth is unfulfilling. When people reach these epiphanies, they begin to search elsewhere, and for something more wholesome and eternal.
This represents a spiritual hunger in this country that no government program can fill. Every day, more people are recognizing the simple truth that they have a soul to tend to, not just a body. While we are seeing hopelessness, despair, moral relativism, and spiritual apathy, underneath it all, a hunger for God is present. Hunger means life. You do not hunger for something that is already gone.
As Americans undergo these personal paradigm shifts and softening hearts, they begin to realize that America was not founded on agnosticism, atheism, or as some sort of secular utopia. It was founded on a Judeo-Christian value system that cannot and will not be denied. In fact, the principal reason our founders fled Europe centuries ago was that they were tired of being told they had to worship a certain way. They wanted to express their faith freely, without the government telling them how to do it.
And by God’s grace, that’s what they got.
God over man and man over government is not a political platform; it is at the core of our great nation. Through genuine repentance, revival, and reformation, America is now rediscovering its roots.
The number one battle in America today is not between the donkey and the elephant. The battle is between the serpent and the Lamb. Colossians 2:15 reminds us that the Lamb, Jesus Christ, already defeated the serpent. The most powerful spirit on this planet is not division. Not fear. Not darkness. The most powerful spirit in America is still the Holy Spirit.
That is not a talking point or an empty analogy. That is a track record. Every time this nation has faced its darkest hour, faith did not retreat. It advanced.
I have advised three presidents. I have led the Latino evangelical community for more than two decades. To have the reset this nation needs, we have to make the main thing the main thing. It begins with humility. Acknowledging that we have a sovereign God who created us. Then we must pursue righteousness and justice, truth and love. Seeking God’s Word changes everything.
This is not a religious sentiment. This is the only reset that has ever worked in American history.
The founders would be optimistic if they could see America today. But they might also sound the alarm. They would be disappointed to see the discord, the chasm, the perpetual victimization that is consuming our culture today. They would loathe the dependency on a government that was never meant to be our savior.
But, still, they would look at what happened on that Mall on Sunday with hope. Because the America they built was always meant to be a nation that knelt before God, not before its own ambitions.
Because there is still spiritual hunger in America. And where there is hunger, revival often follows. Every great awakening this nation has experienced did not begin with legislation, but in the hearts of ordinary people who decided that God was worth returning to. We are there again.
We can’t let this past Sunday be a memory. It ought to be a mandate. Because God is not done with America, and America is not done with God.
This article was originally published by RealClearReligion and made available via RealClearWire.
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