God and Our Country
Richard Bradley
Psalm 33:12
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance
We are living in a time as a country when things we used to take for granted such as national pride, American honor, and patriotism are at the very least blasé and at the very worst banned from public demonstrations altogether. In one generation we have seen our country go from flag waving to flag burning. Whereas nationalistic slogans such as ''Remember the Alamo'' and ''Remember the Maine'' and ''Remember Pearl Harbor'' used to stir our patriotic hearts to take action in righteous indignation a better slogan for our day might well be ''Can't We Just All Get Along?''
What happened? When did it all start to go so wrong for our nation? It should be fairly easy to demonstrate that the character of our nation began to slide just about the same time that the heat of our devotion to God was being replaced with the cold, lifelessness of secular humanism. Did you see recently that for the first time a session of Congress was opened not with the prayer of a Christian minister but with the chant of a Buddhist Priest?
Assuming it's not too late, how do we get back? If God's patience has not run out only revival will save us. This is exactly what the Psalmist said a long time ago. A word of warning; as a nation Israel never came back to God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln's prophetic utterances of the 19th. century could easily have been penned today:
''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 number, 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 the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produce ...
Richard Bradley
Psalm 33:12
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance
We are living in a time as a country when things we used to take for granted such as national pride, American honor, and patriotism are at the very least blasé and at the very worst banned from public demonstrations altogether. In one generation we have seen our country go from flag waving to flag burning. Whereas nationalistic slogans such as ''Remember the Alamo'' and ''Remember the Maine'' and ''Remember Pearl Harbor'' used to stir our patriotic hearts to take action in righteous indignation a better slogan for our day might well be ''Can't We Just All Get Along?''
What happened? When did it all start to go so wrong for our nation? It should be fairly easy to demonstrate that the character of our nation began to slide just about the same time that the heat of our devotion to God was being replaced with the cold, lifelessness of secular humanism. Did you see recently that for the first time a session of Congress was opened not with the prayer of a Christian minister but with the chant of a Buddhist Priest?
Assuming it's not too late, how do we get back? If God's patience has not run out only revival will save us. This is exactly what the Psalmist said a long time ago. A word of warning; as a nation Israel never came back to God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln's prophetic utterances of the 19th. century could easily have been penned today:
''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 number, 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 the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these things were produce ...
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