THURSDAY July 4, 2024
Independence Day
We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you.
Psalm 33:20-22 NIV
These are dark days in our nation. The United States of America, as an independent nation, has enjoyed its freedoms, but now they are at risk. As of June 7, 2024, the US national debt was $34.67 trillion. Yet on our currency, we have placed the words “In God we trust.” There is where our help lies––in God. Our Founding Fathers held deeply to the belief of a nation founded upon biblical principles, and it is to those principles we must return.
“We have this day restored the sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come." Samuel Adams (as the Declaration of Independence was being signed)
“The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. Perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society. He has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain." Thomas Jefferson
Every year on July 4, we are reminded of the high cost of our liberty. Thirteen colonies united in their cause against the tyrannical rule of King George III and high taxation. Although there were differences among the colonies, there was no division among them in the war against the British––a war that lasted about seven years.
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence. It was written by godly men who recognized the Supreme Judge of the world––God. On September 3, 1783, a treaty was signed in Paris, whereby Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and to formally end the war.
The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.
~John Adams~
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