ENJOY! (and ponder...)
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
By President Abraham Lincoln
2 Chronicles 7:14
...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 will heal their land.
Wow, that is a great quote! As I was reading it I was thinking this must have been written recently, and then I got to the name at the bottom, and I was amazed. That quote is almost like a prophecy.
ReplyDeleteI was just realizing after reading your post that we have a great task ahead of us, in the days and years that follow, to point our country to Christ through our words, actions thoughts, attitudes, and motives. One person at a time, we can make a difference and God can be once again glorified through this country. We must never give I hope in Him!