{"id":15232,"date":"2024-07-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=15232"},"modified":"2024-09-23T23:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:23:42","slug":"god-of-our-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/god-of-our-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"God of our Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine \u2014
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget\u2014lest we forget!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 “Recessional<\/a>” by Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several years now I have prayed for a leader for our country who loves God and acknowledges as Tucker Carlson did last night that “God is amongst us”. Assuming such a position of “supplication” requires first humility and then gratitude. George Washington assumed such a position at Valley Forge as he knelt on his knees every day and prayed to God\u2014Divine Providence. Abraham Lincoln opined, and I paraphrase that it is more important for us to try to be on God’s side, than it is to ask the question if God is on our side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have many progressive friends who have marginalized and characterized Christians and especially Christian politicians. Think about what happened to Sarah Palin. As a Catholic, I was proud to see last night J. D. Vance make the Sign of The Cross before Mr. Trump’s speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amongst coffee with friends, several of them opined that “it was not Divine Providence” that held Mr. Trump in His hands as a bullet whizzed by and grazed his right ear. Their basic moral predicate was that there is no such thing as Divine Providence or that God doesn’t interfere with individual lives or in the affairs of nations. Nothing could be further from the truth in my opinion. I was reminded of the story in Luke 16: 19-31 of the Rich man dressed in purple and the poor man\u2014Lazarus. The rich man went to hell not because he was rich but because he was prideful. The poor man went to heaven not because he was poor, but because he was humble. For anyone to define the Holy Spirit’s motives or objectives in human terms is not wise\u2014it is in fact prideful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Tucker Carlson said “God is amongst us,” it means God is always amongst us and is sovereign to act in ways that we are incapable of understanding. We all must strive to not let our hearts be hardened in the way that God’s glory cannot be appreciated and revered. Why can two people look at the same sunset across the ocean and one sees God’s creation and chooses by his own free will to celebrate the Creator, and the other takes a more pantheistic position and celebrates the creation itself? Humility and gratitude are prerequisites for proper worship. Why were the two discoverers\u2014Watson and Crick, of the DNA double Helix so different in their understanding of their discovery and of the physical world\u2014one was an atheist and another a believer. The evidence for both is the same\u2014what fills “the hole in their hearts”\u2014Blas\u00e9 Pascal, is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pray for all our leaders and all our people\u2014including President Biden. We were Founded by Christian People. The moral predicate for the legitimacy of our Founding and for our existence today is grounded in Biblical and Natural Law Principles. Holding those principles and beliefs in our hearts should be the bases for the next GREAT AWAKENING.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And, guarding, calls not Thee to guard;
For frantic boast and foolish word\u2014
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make America Great Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should all get down on our knees and thank God for our Blessings and ask that we can always remain humble and supplicant to HIS WILL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God of our fathers, known of old,Lord of our far-flung battle line,Beneath whose awful hand we holdDominion over palm and pine \u2014Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,Lest we forget\u2014lest we forget! \u2014 “Recessional” by Rudyard Kipling For several years now I have prayed for a leader for our country who loves God and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[237,1100],"class_list":["post-15232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-livingston","tag-donald-trump","tag-rudyard-kipling","cat-1051-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}