America is a sick country right now. And its sickness is more than a political one. The sickness is at the very root of the country. There are two things that will put the country back on the track to health.
The first thing the country needs to put it on the road to recovery is God. The Founding Fathers realized the country needed God if it was to survive. The wise man said, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34). The Founding Fathers knew that. In a speech before the Second Virginia Convention (March 23, 1775), Patrick Henry said, "There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us [2 Chronicles 32:8] (Apologetics Press). Benjamin Franklin remarked in the Constitutional Convention, (June 28, 1787), "We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it” [Psalm 127:1]. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel [Genesis 11]" (AP). Henry and Franklin realized that, if a nation were to survive, it needed to put its trust and dependence on God. It is also clear that the Fathers expected the new country to be a Christian nation. The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, remarked:
The first thing the country needs to put it on the road to recovery is God. The Founding Fathers realized the country needed God if it was to survive. The wise man said, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34). The Founding Fathers knew that. In a speech before the Second Virginia Convention (March 23, 1775), Patrick Henry said, "There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us [2 Chronicles 32:8] (Apologetics Press). Benjamin Franklin remarked in the Constitutional Convention, (June 28, 1787), "We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it” [Psalm 127:1]. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel [Genesis 11]" (AP). Henry and Franklin realized that, if a nation were to survive, it needed to put its trust and dependence on God. It is also clear that the Fathers expected the new country to be a Christian nation. The sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, remarked:
From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American Union and of its constituent states were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians.... They were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct (1821, p. 28, emp. added). (AP)
America was once considered a "Christian Nation." The nation's ills will only be healed if it truly becomes a Christian nation. And, it is not enough to be called a Christian nation. It must, be a Christian nation. It must, as Adams rightly asserted, be "bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel."
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