Daily Devotion Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. -Psalm 33:12

It's hard to believe that it was 9 years ago that 9/11 happened.  I still remember that day.  Leah and Adam were babies and Larry called me up to tell me to turn on the tv because a plane had just crashed into the world trade center.  So we were watching it together over the phone when the second plane hit.  My first reaction was to call all of the people I knew who were in the military because I knew that our lives would probably never be the same.  Now, I was born on the fourth of July and all my life I had embodied all that that meant.  My favorite colors were red, white and blue when I was a kid.  I was probably born with a baseball in one hand and a slice of apple pie in the other.  The United States was a great nation, unmatched by any other.  But, like any great nation throughout the Bible, we had our weakness.  We were falling farther away from God, eschewing the heritage of our forefathers, and living on our own pride of excellence.  Don't get me wrong - I haven't lost hope for our nation.  But, let's face it, we've gone from our leaders on the steps of the capitol praying to our leaders demanding that we remove the 10 commandments from all public places.  This is a quote from the First Charter of Virginia written in 1606 for the first colony in the New World:  We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God…  I know, everyone has their philosophy about the freedom of religion and separation of church and state, and whether or not Jefferson was a true Christian, and blah, blah, blah, but we can't deny or forget where our heritage comes from.  Proverbs 22:28 says, Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. If we lose sight of our landmark, our heritage, we lose our way.  My daughter prays every night, really, every night, for our leaders to be saved (including Obama) and for revival in our country and for the protection of the United States.  I hope she's not the only one.  If you don't, you should start.  Don't just sit out on the front lawn waiting for the Lord to return.  Pray for our country.  Pray for revival.  It may seem impossible right now to turn this country back to the Lord, but our God is a God of impossibility.