SCRIPTURE: Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34
QUOTE: We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
– George Washington, 1st President of the United States, 1st Inaugural Address
THOUGHT: Just a little story today. Delivered from a man named Quaker Potts (Quakers are pacifists) to Mason Weems, who wrote a history of George Washington in 1816, Life of George Washington:
“In that woods pointing to a close in view, I heard a plaintive sound as, of a man at prayer. I tied my horse to a sapling & went quietly into the woods & to my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other. He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was the Crisis, & the cause of the country, of humanity & of the world. Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man. I left him alone praying. I went home & told my wife [that] I saw a sight and heard today what I never saw or heard before, and just related to her what I had seen & heard & observed. We never thought a man could be a soldier & a Christian, but if there is one in the world, it is Washington.”
PRAYER: Oh God, your word says you “made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and … marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands” so that they would seek you and perhaps reach out for you and find you (Acts 17:26-27).” As a nation, you gave us good roots, good boundaries, and a wide open throttle to seek and reach out for you. God, you blessed America, will America bless you?
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