The other day, I heard someone on the radio say that the "world is messed up." Yes, I agree. But why? And what are we going to do about it?

Abraham Lincoln had the solution over 150 years ago. And it worked then. It should work now.

And, inasmuch as we know that, by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that 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? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God, we have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. 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!

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Abraham Lincoln, 1863 Proclamation for a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, March 30, 1863
https://wallbuilders.com/proclamation-fasting-humiliation-prayer-1863/

The above is not the complete proclamation. But President Lincoln identified the problem in the first paragraph and offered the solution in the second pargraph. We need to do the same. If this nation does not return to GOD and his ways, we are doomed!