Friends,
I came across this quote today, shared in an email from a dear friend and it has a very prophetic ring to it.
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has grown, but we have forgotten God."
I would think that most would agree. However, what is really eye opening is who said this and even when it was said. Here is the rest of the quote.
"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by a history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. The awful calamity . . . which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has grown, but we have forgotten God."
In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer and these words were part of his proclamation.
[America’s Sin of Self-Sufficiency, Citation: Richard Halverson, "The Question Facing Us," Preaching Today]
6 comments:
President Lincoln was absolutely right. What would he think to see it now! It just goes to show that mankind always forgets God and His overruling power.
it has gotten to the point for many that God shouldn't be in our meetings, on our money ,even mentioned in our open prayers ,in fact it's almost that God is not supposed to exist. Some of us are still sleeping.
Maybe we as a nation are having a wakeup call,but has it come too late. I hope and pray not! blessings jane
Yep I have said the same thing, and I know God is tired of our killing babies, and leaving him out of everything, we have shook our fist at God too often this whole world has turned their back on God, Be blessed
Amen.
Your faith and family are always on top. So proud of all of you. Happy anniversary tomorrow. I'm sending prayers and love your way. Big hug to both of you. One for Cortney too. Miss you all.
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