Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
**Daily Devotional**
If My people . . . turn from their wicked ways, then I will . . . forgive their sin and heal their land. ?2 Chronicles 7:14
When Abraham Lincoln was introduced to author Harriet Beecher Stowe, he reportedly said that she was ?the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.?
Although President Lincoln?s comment wasn?t entirely serious, Stowe?s novel Uncle Tom?s Cabin was instrumental in abolishing slavery in the US. Its graphic depiction of racism and the injustice of slavery helped lead to the start of civil war. Ultimately, Lincoln?s Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves ?shall be free.? Thus, Stowe?s novel helped to change a nation?s moral compass.
Centuries earlier, King Solomon was told about what would change the moral compass of God?s people Israel. It was to start with humility and confession. The Lord told Solomon: ?If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land? (2 Chron. 7:14).
As a Christian community, we should first take an inventory of our own personal lives. As we humbly seek God in prayer and repentance of sin, changes begin in our lives. God may then use us to change a nation?s moral compass. ? Dennis Fisher
Revive us again,
Fill each heart with Thy love;
May each soul be rekindled
With fire from above. ?Mackay
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ?Lincoln