Day of Praise

Th, 07/04/13, "Day of Praise"

"And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, 'We are free,
    we will come no more to you'?" - Jeremiah 2:31

Happy 4th of July!

It's supposed to be a celebration of freedom. If we're honest though, most would acknowledge that the celebration is strained. Trusted spiritual leaders in our country, like Timothy Keller, tell us that seventy percent of our citizenry has no idea how we got our freedom and/or has no idea what to properly do with freedom.

So what's new?

About 500 years ago, Martin Luther said, "We have proven ourselves to be pigs, abusing the fine art of human freedom."

About 2,600 years ago, God spoke these words through Jeremiah in today's verse, "Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you [Lord God]'?" (Jeremiah 2:31)

And shortly after being created, the first man and woman broke the only rule that God gave them: "You are free; just don't eat from that one tree."

Our nation needs a collective freedom reboot.

If you want to be a part of the solution, then carefully read and think about and tell others about Timothy Keller's "The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594483493/ref=redir_mdp_mobile).

God has blessed The United States of America.

Please Lord God, help us use our blessing of freedom to glorify and praise your name! Amen.

Praise God!

(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson