I am doing research, for my Sunday School Class, on the Founding Fathers’ Biblical principles that were included in the Constitution and early documents in the colonies. It has been an amazing discovery to read how God’s hands have been wrapped around this country since the beginning when the Pilgrims and the Puritan’s landed on our shores in the 1600’s.
Most of us attended school and learned about the Pilgrims near Thanksgiving. We heard the academic version of their quest for freedom. We rarely heard the Biblical quest for liberty and freedom in a new country away from the oppression and ridicule of the Church of England.
These first brave men and women endured a long journey across the Atlantic to find land that certainly needed lots of “sprucing up” once they set up camp. Life was incredibly harsh but they knew what they faced. They did not fret over the tough daily life they endured because their dream for religious freedom was found in the “New England.”
Often, we forget the price these 20,000 original people paid to build a country that was a shining light on a hill for others to seek. Maybe we become complacent of how God has blessed America through these years. When you’re watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July say a prayer for thanks for being fortunate enough to be an American!
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