John Piper writes about two recent evidences of God's mercy on our nation, the ability of a once racist nation to elect a black president and for an unlikely landing of a plane on the Hudson river, and closes with these words:

The “miracle on the Hudson” and the “miracle in the White House” are
not unrelated. God has been merciful to us as a nation. Our racial sins
deserved judgment a thousand times over. God does not owe America
anything. We owe him everything. And instead of destruction, he has
given us another soft landing. We are not dead at the bottom of the
Hudson.
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