In the 1950s, Pete Seeger composed a song which The Byrds—and American rock band—would popularize some 10 years later: “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season).”

The lyrics of this song are taken almost entirely from the text of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, the introduction of which states, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”

We in America have been greatly blessed. We can build and we can break down, we can dance and we can mourn. But will this last? As a country, we have not been obeying our Maker.

We call evil good and good evil. God’s commandments are no longer being upheld—but there yet remains hope. In Jonah 3:8-9 we read, “Let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?” And God did relent and spare ancient Nineveh.

We pray that our country will turn away from evil and return to obey our God. And if not our nation, then at least we as individuals can change.