How do you put a fragile, broken nation back together?
It sounds a little like the state of Humpty Dumpty when he fell, right?
The pressing question is: who can unify and heal the nation of America and its people?
A nation or country is a mass of people with common origins, culture, language, history, and government within a territory.
Consider these three things about any nation.
- A unified nation requires the unification of a mass majority of its people or citizens.
- It can be said if the nation is godly, the vast majority of the people must be godly.
- If the nation is ungodly, the vast majority of its people are ungodly.
The Bible records stories about many ungodly nations, and many ungodly nations exist today.
Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, believed a divided, fractured nation needed an intervention from God.
President Lincoln dedicated a day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer on March 30, 1863, for a nation divided and fractured due to slavery and the Civil War.
Can any nation expect unity and godliness under a leader who doesn’t want to be on God’s side?
A godly nation is one of love, equality, and the pursuit of happiness for all.
President Abraham Lincoln was one American president who proclaimed whose side he and the nation should be on.
President Lincoln said, “I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s.
As children, we played the game Follow the Leader. All players line up behind a chosen leader and mimic their actions. Players must jump, run, twist, or copy the leader’s actions.
These simple rules apply on a more complicated scale to leaders who govern a nation. In other words, the type of presidential leadership can determine the godliness of a country and its people.
President Lincoln didn’t want to be a part of any division and wanted the nation to look to God to solve the problem and heal the people.
Here is an excerpt from President Lincoln’s proclamation:
A Proclamation.
“Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own 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 all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
President Lincoln stated his case succinctly when he said, “I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right, but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s.
The nation President Lincoln addressed in 1863 is the divided nation we live in today, 162 years later.
A godly nation must have a godly leader and a vast majority of godly people.
I’m on the side of love and equality for all. I’m on God’s side; whose side are you on?
May God bless America and its citizens.
I hope you’re happy and well.