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As I walked down the road one fine morning, In the gray light just before dawn, I approached a house with a flagpole Mounted up above the front lawn.
And I saw in the breeze that was blowing, A sight that is common here in our land. It was the flag that's known as Old Glory! Stars and stripes Betsy Ross sewed by hand.
As I reached the edge of that lawn, A beam of sunlight streamed 'cross the way As the horizon was crested by dawn Thus began another beautiful day.
I lifted my face to enjoy it And then froze as my eyes did behold What once was hidden by darkness But sunlight had clearly exposed.
The flag was ragged and tattered, Stars and stripes were faded and worn. It's edges were raveled and threadbare. It had seen much abuse, many storms.
Old Glory had not been protected, Nor shielded from things that decay. No value was placed on it's beauty, To keep it from fading away.
As I gazed at it's once splendid colors, Intended to glow like bright jewels, I thought of our nation's beginnings, And how it's seen many years of abuse.
When America's founders began it They had many dreams for our land. A place of bright hopes, new beginnings. One Nation under God was the plan!
They believed in a Savior, Our Lord Jesus. The Bible, God's Word, they did take, To build a foundation for freedom. The kind that the world can not shake.
But as years went the Word was rejected. "We're too smart for that now, you see. We've technology and so much knowledge, For God we have no real need."
"In God We Trust" for this country, States the money we hold in our hand, but We've banned Him from all of our classrooms, And are driving Him out of this land.
Our nation is cloaked now in darkness. Those blinded by it still stand And admire the beauty and splendor, That their minds say is still in this land.
But the Son-light will soon break the darkness, And reveal to us once and for all, That the nation is faded and ugly, And it is inevitable that it will fall.
For the Glory has gone out of Old Glory! Our government no longer weighs Decisions based on the Story In which Jesus told us to stay.
We've perverted His Word and debased it, Destroyed families and churches and man, By making tolerance our national byword, And sin as a natural plan.
We've ripped up our nation's foundation, And built it anew on plain sand. God's Glory is gone from Old Glory, And a nation divided can't stand.
Mary Kay Young |
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Isaiah 1:2-7 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me; the ox knows its owner And the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider. Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers." |
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2 Chronicles 7:14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. |
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Our forefathers fought and died to make this nation free. The main
freedom they sought was the freedom to be able to worship our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ in Spirit and in Truth. Since that time our country has fought in many wars, and
aided many nations, costing us countless lives and heartaches as men died to keep this
nation free. God gave us our own "Promised Land". It was rich and full of life.
People worked hard and followed God. Peace was on this land. Then as time went by and things progressed, people started growing in knowledge. They studied other countries and other cultures. They began to pick and choose what they wanted to believe of the heritage our men fought for, and began to adopt the ways of countries without our freedom. Voluntarily, little by little, we have taken back the chains of sin. We have become too sophisticated for God. As people grow in knowledge and throw away their Bibles, we see our nation sliding more and more rapidly into Hell. We've given our children "freedom" and they are using it to kill each other and themselves. Will we continue to waste what so many worked and died for? Will we allow our freedom to be stripped away by decadence and sin? Will we continue to turn our backs on God and deny our sickness? Please, we want God back in America! If you are reading this and you don't know what God did for us. If you don't know what true freedom is. If you don't know the solution to the problems this country faces....then please click below and follow the links! Please note that you need the Shockwave / Flash plug-in to view the next page! Just click OK to install and be able to view beautiful streaming drama, or click here to visit Macromedia and download from their page. Either download comes directly from Macromedia, not us. They have downloads for all operating systems and browsers on their page. Page will open in a new window. After download is complete, close the page and click the link above. |
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