Independence Day

INDEPENDENCE DAY – July 4 – 2023

God Bless America, Land That I Love,   YES!  

How blessed I am to live here!  Thank You, Lord! 

God Bless America, Land That I Love,
Stand Beside Her And Guide Her
Through The Night With A Light From Above.

Please, Lord – be ‘long-side, guide, and enlighten!

And…

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!

America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,  Please, Lord!
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!   Ponder the last two lines!

(“America the Beautiful”, Katharine Bates)

This sent to the HOPE list today:

Galatians 5:1, Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

July 4 marks the day that our forefathers declared their desire to live in liberty, not knowing if such would come to pass or not. Their act would surely bring a wrath upon themselves and possibly leave them in greater bondage, but they were unanimous in their desire to stand together in liberty.  God blessed them – and us – with liberty.

May we cherish both the national liberty we enjoy and the liberty from guilt, fear and hopelessness that we have in Jesus.