What a fitting time that we think of God. Many of us who do not head to church will do so this weekend, like Christmas, Easter is a time to renew our faith. Too busy for God, too busy to worship but just to be sure he will remember us we head off to church at least twice a year.
Our faith, our belief in God is not measured by how many times we enter the church of our choice nor is it measured by what religion, if any, we choose to follow. God is God, he is what keeps us going from the inside out. Whenever we feel the need to strengthen our inner selves we need only seek God out and we will discover some hidden inner strength we had not discovered. There is never a time we are not too busy for God because God just is there for us at any given moment, we just need to think of him and he is there, it is just that simple.
So how is it that God got left out or pushed out of things in our country? Surely, we know he was quite instrumental in putting America together. He was there for our founding fathers when they toiled about how to write the Constitution, he was there for Jefferson when he wondered what words to use for the Declaration of Independence and when John Adams agonized over the words to use to convince the other delegates to stand up with him in support of the independence God was right there and he continued his support throughout American history.
Not one man shed one drop of blood for freedom or liberty without God being there to aid in that man's journey in the fight. Ask any soldier and he will tell you how he feels the presence of God standing beside him on the battlefield. God knows freedom, he knows what every man desires and he is ready to be with any man who has the strength and faith to stand up for such freedom.
So where is God? Is he still around? Has our government convinced enough that God does not exist or should not exist? The answer is simple and powerful - No. God is too strong, too powerful, too wonderful for us to just abandon him. There is no way some government will convince us that God is not good enough for us or that God will make others feel bad about each other. On the contrary, God makes us, teaches us that we love each other, that we enjoy sharing with each other that which we have an abundance of, makes us smile with each other, bless each other and makes us blind to color and creed, letting us see only our fellow brothers and sisters.
God opens our eyes while the government wants us to close our eyes, in fact, it tries to blind us, blindfold us. God rips the blindfolds off, allows us to see where we have been blinded and gives us insight into our fellow men. What others try to hide from us under falsehoods God exposes the truth. What evils others try to do to us in the name of good God pulls off the sheep's clothing to reveal the wolf. God is truly in our midst and we can clearly see him.
When the masses are heading out for services this weekend and many that do not think of God do so this weekend we need to take the time to focus on joining together in thought or prayer, if you will, for the healing, the new birth of this nation so God can once again be a visible part of it rather than be a silent partner in it's well being. If you love America, you love God. America in God we trust ---------
