A Devotional Thought from the prophet, Jeremiah
Here is advice to an ancient nation that is good advice to our country today. Don't trust in your religion, or "spirituality," or what you think is your moral superiority. Instead change, amend, your evil ways, and God will give you peace and blessing in the land. There are a lot of behaviors and other doings the people of our country should amend. Here is the advice as Jeremiah spoke it in 7:4-7:
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye opress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
That's good advice for the populace and the government.