Yesterday I wrote something out of grief, anger, and exhaustion. I said you can’t share a nation with those who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death. And while I stand by the disgust – because celebrating a man’s death is evil, period – I need to correct myself. You can share a nation with people like that. You just can’t share a nation with the evil that’s infested their hearts.
That’s the distinction. People are not the enemy. Evil is.
Bethany asked in the comments: “How do you see this being reconciled? I have and continue to believe that this is not reconcilable. Where do we go from here?”
That’s the right question. It’s the question we all should be asking. Because right now, America feels like Humpty Dumpty after the fall – cracked beyond repair, with two halves screaming at each other across the divide.
And if you think politics can fix this? You’re living in fantasyland.
Let’s be blunt: Government cannot heal hate. Congress can’t legislate forgiveness. No president – red, blue, orange, or half-conscious – can bind up the wounds of a nation rotting from the inside. Evil doesn’t care about executive orders. Evil laughs at legislation. Evil thrives on division, feeds on resentment, and metastasizes when people confuse policy with redemption.
And oh, are we confused.
Half the country thinks salvation comes through Washington, D.C. – as if the right set of bills, regulations, and court decisions can cleanse a corrupted heart. Spoiler alert: they can’t.
We are spiritually bankrupt, morally exhausted, and politically drunk. And instead of falling to our knees, we keep looking to Caesar for what only Christ can give.
That’s why 2 Chronicles 7:14 is the only roadmap that makes sense:
“Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.”
Notice what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say, “If your party wins the election.” It doesn’t say, “If you out-meme the opposition on social media.” It doesn’t even say, “If you finally prove how right you are.”
It says, if My people… humble themselves… pray… seek My face… and turn from their wicked ways.
Not “their wicked ways.” Our wicked ways. Mine. Yours. The Church’s.
That’s the bitter pill, isn’t it? We’d rather sit around cataloging everyone else’s sins like political accountants. But national healing doesn’t start in the White House; it starts in God’s house. With His people. With us repenting, not just ranting.
Because here’s the thing: Evil didn’t just kill Charlie Kirk. Evil didn’t just drive planes into towers twenty-four years ago. Evil is what convinces us that our neighbor is our enemy. Evil whispers that reconciliation and redemption are impossible. Evil feeds the cynicism that says, “We’re too far gone.”
And maybe – maybe we are too far gone if the only savior we’re banking on is government. If all our hope is pinned to the next election cycle, then yes – pack it up, the American experiment is toast.
But if God is who He says He is? If Christ really has overcome the world? (And BTW – they are!) Then no nation, no matter how fractured, is beyond redemption.
The question is: will His people actually believe Him? Will we humble ourselves, pray, repent, and turn back? Or will we keep hoping some politician will do the heavy lifting of spiritual renewal while we tweet from the sidelines?
You want to know how this gets reconciled, Bethany? Not through politics. Not through stronger rhetoric. Not even through “unity” campaigns that paper over the cracks. It gets reconciled through repentance. Through revival. Through God doing what no government ever could: taking hearts of stone and turning them into hearts of flesh.
I’ll be candid with you – I don’t see that happening on a grand, national scale anytime soon. Not with the pride and vitriol running wild right now. But I do see it happening locally. Individually. In homes, in churches, in communities where people take 2 Chronicles 7:14 seriously and stop waiting for someone else to fix it. You start in your sphere of influence, and I’ll start in mine.
And maybe that’s the point. Maybe the healing of our land doesn’t start in the headlines. Maybe it starts in the quiet corners where God’s people finally say: enough. Enough chasing Caesar. Enough baptizing our politics. Enough rage. Enough pride.
We need forgiveness. We need humility. We need God.
Because at the end of the day, no political party can cast out demons. No legislation can resurrect the dead. No president can reconcile a nation addicted to hate.
Only God can.
And until we believe that – until we live like that – we’ll keep trying to duct-tape this broken nation back together while the cracks get wider and the rot gets deeper.
So, no. You can’t share a nation with evil. But you can share a nation with people – broken, angry, misled people – because people can be redeemed. People can change. Hearts can be transformed.
But only when we stop looking to Washington and start looking to Heaven.
