This week was Independence Day, the 232
nd anniversary of the founding of our country.
Isn’t
America a great place to live?
While it’s not a perfect place (like Heaven will be!), it’s a lot better than most other nations in the world today.
America is a crazy place. Here’s what somebody wrote … “Only In America”:• Only in
America can pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.• Only in
America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.• Only in America do drug stores make the sick walk all the way in the back to get their prescriptions … while healthy people can buy suntan lotion up front.• Only in America do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.• Only in America do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway, and fill our garages with junk.• Only in America do we use answering machines to screen calls, and have call waiting, so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.• Only in America do we buy hotdogs in packages of 10, and buns in packages of 8.• Only in America do we have Braille on drive up ATM machines.
Yes, America can be a crazy place to live in at times, but it can also be a great place to live in if we will remember why God placed us on the planet.
The Apostle Paul gives us three things we can do to keep America great.
“Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.: (I Timothy 2:1-4)
Paul says we need to do three things: pray, live lives of godliness and reverence, and to witness and tell others of what Jesus Christ has done for us. This is a formula for not only keeping America great, but for keeping any other nation great. You may also be a great person by following the formula down to yourself.
Our freedoms came at a tremendous cost to everyone who had a hand in securing it and keeping us free; from our Founding Fathers right down to the lowliest soldier on the streets of Baghdad. The very least we can do is to pray, live lives that God wants us to lead, and to share our faith with others. God expects us to use the freedoms He has given us to take the Gospel message into the whole world “who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
God bless America- America Bless God!
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