09/23/2024
We should all take a minute and actually think about this!!!!
One Nation Under God
Galatians 5:13
YOU, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
WERE CALLED TO BE FREE.
The United States was founded on a solid Christian desire for One Liberty and One Nation Under God. Or said another way by Ronald Reagan, "If we forget that we are 'One nation, under God', then we will be one nation gone under."
As I was reading through different founding leaders' and presidents' quotes and speeches about God's role in our country, I stumbled upon this quote by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. I was surprised by how applicable it was almost 150 years later.
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven… 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 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."
The United States is not great on its own accord, nor is it blessed because of its people. We must always remember that this great country was ordained on God's principles and grace.
Instead of separating our beliefs from our nation, we must insert them into our country with prayer, praise, and Christian participation. Our duty is to be involved and help our country to grow toward God, rather than away from Him.
So, I encourage you when you celebrate the United States this year, remember that this country was founded, rooted, and established on Christian principles.
Credit: Lee Arnold