1. Have you experienced God's discipline in your life, especially through this crisis? If so, how?
2. What has God shown you concerning sin? What has the word of God been showing you lately? If nothing, what do you need to do to engage with Jesus through the Bible? How has God shown you His love lately? Is there some pain in your life that He is allowing you to go through? Has he stopped you progress in some area of your life? What are these things showing you about His love for you?

Here is the quote by President Abraham Lincoln (Lord, give us a president with such a worldview once again! In Jesus's name, amen!)

“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by a history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. The awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has grown, but we have forgotten God.”