All this week, Independence Day has been celebrated in various ways across my community in Midwestern America. Watching a fireworks show last night made me nostalgic for a time that has not yet transpired, but which I look forward to most dearly. A time when I will join with all those American Christians who have gone before me and celebrate this day each year in perpetuity, with every generation of my people who have joined to God from across all time. What an age that will be.
For now, I do pray for myself and all my fellow Americans who live this day. I pray we would conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and that we would steward the nation we have inherited from God’s people with care and reverence. May we stand boldly against all our enemies and astutely care for all our neighbors, at every chance that may arise. By God’s grace and our good cheer, may we face our forefathers one day without the shame that comes from failing to uphold the virtues we have all known from the beginning.
When God led Moses and the Israelites to form a government in the ancient world, it was a republic which was bestowed upon them. In rebellion against God during the time of Samuel, they established a monarchy in a false rivalry against the Kingship of God. It is not often that nations establish a republican form of government as God taught, nor is it is common that they keep it even when they do.
Yet, as God’s mercies renew every morning, so too do His triumphs through His people renew every generation. Those of us who live in this time all have a chance to play our part in the nation, tribe, and tongue He has created and is gathering for His kingdom. What precisely that part is not only depends on each individual person and his or her calling, but also upon the very real circumstances of the society within which one is found. You may be in a totally Godless or heretical place, tasked with planting the first seeds toward freedom. Or you may be somewhere the Way of God is long-established.
Whatever your lot in life, live it well. God makes no mistakes, and we were all placed where we are for it is the best place for us to be. No matter where you read this from, know that your American brothers and sisters in Christ from past and present are rooting for you, along with all the other saints. Take heart and fear not. You are never too small to do what God has called you to do this day. Had our American forbearers not known this, we would not celebrate this day as we do.
God bless you all. And may God bless the United States of America.
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” – 2 Corinthians 3:17
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