I’m an American…plain and simple. I stand when our national anthem is played. I shed tears whenever the flag is removed from a casket and given to a survivor. I grow angry when those who claim to be Christian disrupt military funerals with insanely hateful chants and posters. I feel blessed to have been born into this great country, and to live with the freedoms our nation affords.
One of my greatest dreams is that America might live up to our claim. For one of my darkest fears, is that we as a nation might be held accountable when we falsely claim to be “under God.”
You see, if we allow our people go hungry, then our claim to be under God is false advertising. Even when our ancestors were desert refugees…God saw that they were fed.
If we allow those who are ill to be denied proper health care, then our claim to be under God is faulty.
If we allow corporations to have more rights and privileges than human beings, then our claim to be under God is being grossly misinterpreted.
If we allow our government to deny us our God-given free will to make personal choices, then our claim to be under God has been usurped.
The bottom line is that if we want to be under God, then we should base our governmental decisions upon the teachings of Jesus…who many of us consider to be the best picture of God that we have. And what was Jesus’ purpose again? He came to “bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty those who are oppressed.”
The only way for our nation to live up to our claim to be under God, is for us to attempt the fulfillment of this purpose. Anything less…would be a false claim.
