It’s Almost the 4th of July…

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And so it’s time to remind Americans that authentic freedom comes only from God. Or as the psalmist so pointedly and poignantly puts it

Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, my soul!
I will praise Yahweh all my life, I will make music to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes, in any child of Adam, who has no power to save.
When his spirit goes forth he returns to the earth, on that very day all his plans come to nothing.
How blessed is he who has Jacob’s God to help him, his hope is in Yahweh his God,
who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. He keeps faith for ever,
gives justice to the oppressed, gives food to the hungry; Yahweh sets prisoners free.
Yahweh gives sight to the blind, lifts up those who are bowed down.
Yahweh protects the stranger, he sustains the orphan and the widow. Yahweh loves the upright,but he frustrates the wicked.
Yahweh reigns for ever, your God, Zion, from age to age.  (Ps 146)

It isn’t government which gives or guarantees freedom at all. And it’s idolatry to think otherwise.

6 thoughts on “It’s Almost the 4th of July…”

  1. Jim,
    Don’t forget that the 4th of July is also the date of the battle of Hattin… 🙂

    Aren

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  2. “It isn’t government which gives or guarantees freedom at all.”

    As any Japanese American from the ’40s could tell you. Well put.

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  3. Actually who cares about the 4th July its a day like any other day. Although it may make sense if America asked forgiveness for its attempted hegemony throughout the world and accepted that the UN is the greatest place to bring about justice for the world, that might include stop killing their own people or having the craziest gun laws in the world. then July 4th may have some importance.

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    • you’re just bitter because we kicked your behinds over 200 years ago like the germans did the other day….

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