The Wild West is alive and well in Stockton, CA. Shootings, muggings, break-ins, murders, rape, you name it. It is so bad, local police officers are putting up signs around town advertising the fact. Drifting from the moral and spiritual moorings of the past, America is reaping the rewards of a people who have no fear of God. There's a verse in the Book of Ecclesiastes that comments on our condition: "Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." (Eccl. 8:11) Many get away with their crimes without being punished and when punishment is exacted, the penalty is inequitable and far less than "an eye for an eye." Crime pays. It's as simple as that.
There is still hope for our great nation, but it doesn't lie in education, jobs, or political parties. New hearts are needed. Hearts filled with a fear of and love for the God who gives life, the God who forgives the evil we do and gives a joy that is unspeakable.
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