Our Heritage

July 23

The United States of America enjoys the unique heritage of having been established by Christians for the purpose of achieving religious freedom for all people of faith in Jesus Christ. It has since expanded its scope to include religious freedom for people of all religious persuasions. Perhaps in gaining that dimension, the nation has lost something of infinite value--its claim to being a Christian nation. That is for the Holy One to decide.

But one thing even the finite minds of mortal men may correctly ascertain is that a once great nation is in a free-fall from its lofty estate. We can blame our leaders for the corruption with which they have compromised our great Constitution, or we can blame a mindless populace that elected them, or we can blame the times in which we live which are fraught with godlessness--but wherever we allocate blame, the unfortunate reality is that our nation no longer enjoys the blessings of the Lord upon it.

However we feel about the cause of the current status of our nation, the one solution the God of Heaven and Earth and all that exists has to say in the matter is found in II Chronicles 7:14. That now familiar passage iterates: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.”

It behooves each of us who profess to love the Lord Jesus Christ to lift up this prayer, which originates in the Father’s heart, to His throne of mercy and grace daily. It behooves us to fast and pray in the behalf of this land that was laid at His feet at its inception—that godly men shall rise up to rule here, that spiritual revival will sweep our population and we will treasure the freedom our founders built into the Constitution.

When our cry has reached His footstool, we will, above all, cherish once again the freedom Jesus purchased for us on the cross.

If our generation allows the current tide of lawlessness and godlessness to be sustained, the next generation will not know the freedom our Founding Fathers counted dear enough to mutually pledge their “lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor,” in order to attain.

May we not be so foolish as to grovel in the pit of bondage when the lofty mountain of freedom is our heritage.