The headline read, “Louisiana Requires Classrooms to Display the Commandments.”

As we witness a national implosion of morality, this is not the solution.

God declared:

“These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.” (Isaiah 29:13)

Jesus observed this about the religious leaders who planned to kill him:

The Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. (John 5:37–40)

The writer to the Hebrews concluded:

Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6)

In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court building was built, with the Commandments inscribed in the inner chamber. The explanation: They are one of the many moral codes that formed the judicial system. They are mere words feeding the notion that pleasing God begins with performance, apart from faith.

Abortions are rising. June venerates a gender smorgasbord under the misnomer, “Pride.” Assisted suicide is gaining traction nationally and internationally. Professing Christians and church bodies are sometimes on the front lines advocating for these things.

Won’t posting the 10 Commandments be a step in the right direction? No. The Law reveals our sins but will not purify Americans any more than it did the biblical Israelites.

Real progress comes by electing genuinely God-fearing, Christ-believing, Bible-accepting political leaders, operating schools with consistent and biblically defensible guidelines, and having parents raise their children in the way of the Lord. Without changed hearts, it will look right, feel right, and make many people happy, but it will be wrong. It will be actions without faith in an atmosphere that further feeds the sin of thinking we are saved by works and not by faith. Post John 3:16 or 2 Corinthians 5:21 on classroom walls. That would be progress!

Hearts need to be changed and that is done one person at a time, sharing God’s word. Live your faith and share the message of salvation. That is the solution.