The dust has settled upon a nation now destitute. Britain has been rocked by excessive riots that has left experts scrambling for reasons. The UK Centre For Social Justice claims that it is the break down of marriage that has caused the rioting. Usually I am disinclined to agree with any group promoting social justice as ultimate importance however this report may be on to something. As Bill Muehlenberg says:

“When we play fast and loose with fathers and marriage we simply invite the sort of barbarism witnessed in London to become mainstream. We had better wise up before it is too late.”

Fatherlessness and Violence, Bill Muehlenberg

MP Kevin Andrews goes further:

“When fathers have little ongoing connection to or oversight over their children, the protective structures of family are diminished. When nihilism replaces a common morality broadly based on religious values, responsibility to the wider community is lost. When people at the margins of society are relieved of personal responsibility to work and contribute to the community, and are left to live aimless, dependent lives, the type of anarchy we have witnessed in Britain is never far away.”

Why Britain Is Broken And How It Might Be Fixed, Kevin Andrews

Britain has divorced itself from God and laid waste to His commandments. It has created its own morals and lives in an age of self obsession. There are many who legitimately believe that it is better to keep God out of a countries affairs (as if that was what the concept of Church and state was designed for). One only has to turn to Isaiah 1 to see God's message to a nation that had turned its back on Him:

“Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged.

Why will you still be struck down?
Why will you continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.

Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.”

Isaiah 1:4-7

It it time for us to stop standing dumbly while Satan uses our fellow men as pawns. To Satan man is expendable but to God man is worth dying for. As the saved we need to be interceding for the lost. We need to be prayer warriors for a hurting nation and a broken world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/aug/09/uk-riots-data-figures