Here is today’s Bible reading:  Numbers 33:40-35:34; Luke 5:12-28; Psalm 65:1-13; Proverbs 11:23.

Numbers 35:33 (NIV)
” ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Our land is polluted by bloodshed.  Each year 1,350,500 babies are killed in our nation. Since 1973  the number of babies aborted in the United States is 50,311,528.  

But praise God, He Himself has made atonement for our sin through Jesus Christ.

Psalm 65:2 (NIV)
O you who hear prayer,
to you all men will come.

Psalm 65:5 (NIV)
You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness,
O God our Savior,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas,

In Him we find hope.  He offers forgiveness and healing to those who confess their sins.  May God end the bloodshed in our nation and heal our land.