Resurgence

July 1

Life in America has been good. We have been privileged to live in the most prosperous, free society that has ever existed on the planet. A Frenchman, Alec De Tocqueville, assessed the wonders of the bright, new country when he visited here and he said, “America is a nation of churches. America is great because America is good. If she ever ceases to be good, she will no longer be great.”

What De Tocqueville was saying is essentially that the wonder of our land is not in its factories or its farms or its business enterprise or its cutting edge technological acumen. Rather, the heart of the people, which was at that time (1831-1832) turned in faith toward the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was the glory and strength of America.

Because of the faith of our founding fathers and of the people who built upon the society they established, America flourished as no other nation before or since has done. Many true patriots long to see a return to the Christianity that made our country great. As our economy falters, as our leaders squander the public trust because of their salacious behavior and their proclivity to wax cold regarding the faith of our fathers, we think of the words of Paul in his letter to the Hebrews.

He says, “Keep your lives here from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). If we will put our confidence in the God of our fathers again; if we will trust in Him; if we will turn away from false gods and from materialism, we will see a revival sweep our land that will transport us from a nation on the brink of economic crisis and loss to a nation that experiences a resurgence of true, eternal wealth.