Did you know that "In God We Trust" is our national motto? Adopted by the 84th Congress during the Eisenhower administration, few people seem to know this. Unfortunately, we live in a country where God's name is no longer politically correct, where people file lawsuits to have "God" taken off our currency, where they pull their children out of schools when they are forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
While this may be the current sad state of our nation, the undeniable truth is that our nation's history reflects both recognition of and accountability to God. The Declaration of Independence begins with these two sentences:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
The fact that God is being taken out of our national culture should concern all of us. Our founding fathers recognized that God endows us with the rights to life, liberty and happiness. What happens when we take God out of the equation? He must be replaced by something. Is our motto now "In We We Trust?" How well is that working? Who are we accountable to? Have we ever needed God more than now?
Today, I urge you to pray for our nation, its leaders, and its citizens. Pray that we turn our focus back to God and that we regain accountability to Him. Pray that we be the nation He desires us to be. And, don't forget to give thanks that on this day we celebrate America's freedom, we are eternally thankful for the freedom to worship.
Happy 4th of July!
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