Deuteronomy
8:10-14 “When you have eaten and
are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God,
failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you
this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are
satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold
increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God.”
“We have been the recipients of the
choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace
and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation
has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the
gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and
strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our
hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too
proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves
before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for
clemency and forgiveness.” - President Abraham Lincoln – April 30, 1863
Hosea 13:6 When I fed
them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then
they forgot me.
Reminder: Don’t forget.
In Christ, Brian
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