God Bless America, Please!

   "God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account." (Oswald Chambers)

   God Bless America. I sing that song with gusto because I believe that is where our blessings come from, and He is the only one that can keep us on the right track.

   I celebrated July 4th yesterday, by mostly sitting and reading a book by Andy Andrews entitled The Heart Mender. In one scene from the book, the two main characters of the story, one an American war widow in WWII, and the other a survivor of a German U-boat, discuss the wickedness of the Nazi regime. The woman declares the the superiority of the American democratic system would never allow that kind of evil to flourish here.

   The German sailor reminds her of a quote attributed to Alexander Tytler, a Scot from the 1700s.

   "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

   I see the United States in this quote, but I am not convinced of the inevitability of the outcome. We are surely in the midst of that quote's entitlement mentality, but God is still in control, and our trust still needs to be placed there and not in government.

   2Ch 7:14 reads,"if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land".

   For my grandchildren's sake, I pray that God will bless America, but I know that He calls on me to be a part of the solution, not part of the problem.

   Oh God, please help me to trust in You and not the government, and Please God, bless and heal our Land.