This year marks the 250th year of our nation's declaration of independence from Great Britain. While this is certainly worth celebrating, we should remember what made our country great in the first place. French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said “I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests—and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public school system, and in her institutions of higher learning— and it was not there. I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!”
Source: America’s God and Country, William J. Federer
While we celebrate our independence from religious oppression, we ought to declare afresh our constant and continued dependence upon our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, for delivering our souls from sinful bondage. "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." (Romans 8:21).
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"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family." (Leviticus 25:10)
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”— John 17:17

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