Into the Fire

Our country, the one and only USA, was founded on the blood, prayers, and tears of those who fought to get out from under a tyrannical kingdom. A stunning victory came through the sacrificial deaths of those who believed this independence was worth risking and offering their lives as a payment for the freedom to govern themselves.

Today’s government suffers from a true acceptance of what those brave men fought and died to achieve. There are still those patriots who get what this country can be and was meant to be, but the cacophony of pseudo-patriots striving to disrupt and overcome our independence and replace it with a socialistic system fills the media outlets with their nonsense and bewitching promises which they cannot keep without more taxation and more taxation.

We are still one nation under God, but God in all His mercy and blessing cannot turn away from the sins purported upon this nation by its ungrateful, unbelieving people. No . . . Someday there must come a reckoning.

While the brave men and women of our armed forces keep the war away from our shores, fighting for the same independence as the soldiers of this country have always fought to maintain, some discount their valor, their accomplishments, and even the reason for their sacrifices, yet those same someones screech and demand the right to kill the unborn in the womb and even to the point of birth, insisting they actually care about the lives of adults fighting in foreign places.

Today is the 4th of July, Independence Day, in the United States of America. Some will visit memorials, some will have picnics and barbeques, some will get drunk, and some will die. Life will go on. Some will be born on this day and enter a conflicted world—just as every individual born before him or her. Sin is. Always has been since the tragedy in the Garden of Eden. Man’s downfall, his skid from a perfect world into a depraved one.

I hope you will celebrate living in this great country today . . . and everyday. Built not only on the blood of many brave soldiers but even more importantly on the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, the prayers of people who have known Him who gives all good and perfect gifts, and the tears of those who’ve loved, given, lost, and pleaded for the lives of those in battle as well as for God’s mercy on this country—built on the desire for equality and freedom, this is one great nation. Without the help, mercy, and forgiveness of God Almighty, we will cease to have our independence from the crushing oppression of the enemy of our souls.

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (NIV)

Father, forgive us in the Name of Jesus, Amen.

*Please pray for Kristy Dykes and her family.*