With Independence Day looming just ahead, we were choosing a new memory verse to work on this week, and it seemed good to us to go with 2 Chronicles 7:14 —

“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.”

On reflection, with the health care debate boiling up again, and with millions suffering from the heat wave, power and water outages, freak storms, and raging wildfires–not to mention our personal and corporate sins–, we could all use a dose of Divine intervention about now.