This week we celebrate the birth of our wonderful country. America is the best of all nations. People from all around the world risk their very lives to come to here.
In America each citizen is free to talk, think, and travel. If we don’t like our work, we can find another job or we can go to school. If we don’t like our elected officials, we can vote them out, or run for office ourselves. We can turn the channel or turn it off; answer the phone, or disconnect it. We can read our Bibles and go to church. We can visit the supermarket or dine out; be married or stay single; make speeches, or keep silent. The hand of government rests more gently on American citizens than those in any other country.
Although we’re blessed as citizens of this great country, freedom requires a constant vigil. The world is crumbling all around us, but Bible believers have a set of building plans. We live in a strange world – kids know more about drugs, rock music, liquor, and sex than adults. We tax productivity to support unproductiveness. Criminals have rights while victims are suspect. The public schools cannot give a tract or read the Bible or pray. This is not the age of reason but the march of folly.
If we do not take the initiative to talk about morals, an amoral society becomes an immoral society. As believers, we must pray for our nation, participate in the governmental process, and stand for the Biblical principles that made this country great. God’s people have an obligation to be salt and light. Let us be grateful for our nation and live for Christ in these days of opportunity.
Bro. Jack