Pondering: Declaration of Repentance

It's incomprehensible to me that any president would engage in disseminating racist imagery, within a video or otherwise, of anyone, let alone a former president, as is the case today. It is reprehensible and should be rejected as such across the political, national, Church, and human spectrum. Why would the "leader of the free world" give an ounce of time to such antics?

"Hello, mirror. How do we look today?"

The permission we, as a society, have given ourselves to demean others is deeply troubling to me. Rudimentary rhetoric is spouted, amplified, and sewn among us from keyboard protagonists to the very halls of state and national government leaders. Neither party is exempt from this ongoing and engorging social infection. Moral authority seems bankrupt.

Egregiously, this behavior is echoed and sometimes originates among believers and within the Church. I suspect the displaced allegiances to political parties would be met with God's heart-wrenching prophetic lament expressed to his people: "Be appalled at this, O heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." (Jer 2:12-13)

Have we appropriately weighed the full measure of our dishonor to God by trusting worldly systems while adopting and imitating their conduct instead of Jesus? They are all broken cisterns.

We are long overdue for a "Declaration of Repentance."

May it start in the Church. May it expand to our local, state, and national leadership.