All Nations Praise the Lord

As a country, we have gone through a lot in our brief history. We have fought for religious freedom from our very beginning. We have fought for freedom from oppression outside of our country and even for racial freedom among ourselves. As I watched on TV part of “The Freedom March” from Selma, Alabama I realized how we have overcome 50 years’ worth of obstacles for racial freedom. But I was telling another woman of a different race that in the past fifty years we have come so far and yet there is still room for improvement for all races of our nation’s citizens to be accepted. She said she wondered if this will ever actually happen. I replied as long as humans are involved it won’t. And she agreed.

But if we, as a nation, will humble ourselves before the God who made us and praise Him, He will inhabit our nation. If we, as a nation, with hold the truths of the Bible as our truth standard (as we did in the beginning of our nation); we will be blessed by God. 

As people were walking across the historic bridge I was praying for this miracle of races just getting along with each other for our nation and the world. But I didn’t just pray for “world peace” like a Miss America contestant. I know that if humans get in the way we will never get there. But there will be a Day of unity. We will all come together in agreement as we bow before God. We all will have to admit that God is the God of creation and therefore Lord of all. We will have to admit His truth is, was, and always will be the only truth. I remembered these verses:

Praise the LORD, all nations!

Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD! Psalm 117

“Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations!
Who will not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.” Rev. 15:3-4

Someday we will all get along; every race, every diversity, and every world government. Every people group will come together and worship our Lord God in unity and agreement of who He is. Until then we’ll struggle with our little steps toward harmony and agreement. We will disagree with what should and should not “under God” be a part of our nation’s history and world’s history

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Christians will harken to the eternal truth of the Bible.

Non-Christians will harken to present popular truth.

WE won’t get there on our own.

It’s not “We shall overcome.”

It’s HE shall overcome!