A New Year's Prayer

Lord Jesus,
Are you coming back today? It is Rosh Hashannah, but you know that. It would only be fitting to start the Jewish New Year in heaven with you. The signs are all there. They are talking peace in Israel while all the world is aligning against them. Even the good old U.S. of A. is adding pressure to Bibi to make concessions. But that doesn't mean much because this great country has just about reached its lowest point of relevancy in her history: economically we are bankrupt; politically we are impotent; militarily we lack the courage to win; and spiritually, ah Lord Jesus, forgive us, but spiritually we are not even in the game. WE have allowed our morality to be dictated by liberal judges who don't even understand the concept of morality. WE have let them remove prayer and Your Word from our schools, and they are quickly removing them from the public square. WE have let them tell us that our unborn children are not humans so that it has become acceptable to murder the innocent unborn while they rest in what You meant to be the safest, most love-filled, space in the world -- a mother's womb. WE have let them change the laws, Your law, on marriage, and now men marry men and women marry women. How disgusted with us You must be. And we, Your people, called by Your name, called to be the salt and light -- change agents and preservatives -- have chosen to sit idly by and let it all happen in the name of tolerance. WE see it all happening and we bemoan the fact that this old world just keeps sliding farther down that slippery slope into the abyss of depravit all the while wringing our hands and wishing You would do something about it when You already have. You Already Have! You sent Your Son to die on the cross for our sins so that "whosoever believes in You" will be saved. You sent Your Holy Spirit to comfort us, to guide us, and to empower us to transform this world. And You have promised that in our darkest moments you will be the Light that shines in us and through us to not only illuminate our need but also to extinguish the darkness. And all WE need to do is to come together as Your people, humble ourselves before You, seek Your Holy Presence, and turn from OUR wicked ways of apathy and laziness and pride and selfishness and then you would heal our land once our sins are forgiven. So Lord Jesus, are you coming back today? Or are you giving us another chance? Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Come soon! Come today! Happy New Year!