Yet He is also a loving and merciful God.
Because God is that way, He even willingly risks our becoming dull to the offense of sin. Then when an example chastisement takes place, we’re all verklempt.
This is an attitude towards people who are, more or less, believers.
Anyhow, we need to get our spiritual house in order so there is less trouble and more success. Lots of people were singing “God bless America” at the time of the attacks, 15 years ago. God desires that too, but blessings don’t help people who are unwilling to embrace them. God is teaching us what “bless America” would need to look like. One way has been through showing us what “curse America” looks like, so we don’t want to embrace that any more. Barack Obama could have done far worse than he has. Now, I know I’m prognosticating, but I believe that through Donald Trump, God is showing us what “bless America” looks like.
Anyhow, blessings can be dangerous. I can vouch for that from bitter personal experience. If I do the wrong thing with what God intended to be a blessing — it becomes a curse, instead.
If he was he would let one of our leaders send some nuke’s over there to settle this once and for all.