Wednesday, July 2, 2025
DIFFICULTY
– DECISION – DECLARATION!
Josh
24:14-15
14 Now therefore fear the
LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the
LORD.
15 And if it seem evil
unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the
gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we
will serve the LORD.
Sometimes
it is amazing to me
how our nation’s formation and Christian faith is strongly connected. Our
nation was formed out of great struggle and DIFFICULTY. The restrictions
imposed by England upon the inalienable rights of the Colonies fueled a hunger
for independence. When, in the course of human events, the tyranny of Satan
becomes too much for sanity to side with, severance from his devilish grip and
an alliance with Jehovah is called for!
Some of the
founding fathers
never imagined that July 4th would be a day to remember. It was instead, on
July 2nd, that they thought worthy of remembering. Consider the following…
On July2, Congress finally adopted
a resolution in favor of independence, and on July 4 approved the Declaration
of Independence. John Adams sat on the committee appointed to draft the
document and had himself encouraged Thomas Jefferson to write the original draft,
which was accepted with some modifications. As is typical of John Adams, he
recognized the historical significance of the event but was just slightly off
in his analysis of how it would be remembered – he was convinced Americans
would always celebrate July 2 as “the most memorable Epoch, in the History of
America.”
John writes to his wife
Abigail from Philadelphia July 3, 1776:
The Second
Day of July 1776
will be the most memorable Epoch, in the History of America. I am apt to
believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great
anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by
solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp
and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations
from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever
more.
You will
think me
transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood
and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support
and defend these states. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of
ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the
Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although
We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
So it is when the human spirit
can no longer sustain the pain of servitude to the evil one. He first must
DECIDE and then must DECLARE.
Rom
10:10
10 For with the heart man
believeth [with the heart a decision is made] unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Lord,
remind us that our freedom was costly both for our nation and our souls. AMEN
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