Not another worthless Presidential Proclamation, is it?

Maybe I'm getting a wee bit jaded.

But I could be getting  so disgusted with Presidential Proclamations. Blah, blah, blah. The President wants everything to be hunky-dory with the electorate and releases a "Proclamation" to be read in November (hmmm...timing?)

After posting Colson's piece yesterday, I wondered what would happen politically the next day on this Blog. And here it is. You tell me what you think... Den

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The White House
Presidential Proclamation:

"It is the duty of nations as well as of people to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon(what a "downer" thing to write.) ; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord. (Sounds like he's trying to get the Evangelicals to go with the GOP...)

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments...in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity... which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins...? (Why is it that we have to see it as punishment?)

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. (The implications that Americans are fat ,dumb and happy seems to be too harsh, given the circumstances we face, doesn't it? Or am I missing something?)

We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace (how easy is it to say this NOW?)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. (Hasn't it been OUR success that has helped the world?)

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. (With all that America faces, why would the President say this?)

More:

Why would the President pen this?

Because it's 1863 and he's Abraham Lincoln.

Google the rest and read it.

Bottom line, what if he's right? Both then and now.....

This may not be an economic melt down, but rather the natural economic result of personal and moral meltdown.

Den

 

Comments

[Believer]

I was totally in agreement with the non-red comments. I was wondering if I was missing something when someone whose faith I would like to emulate (most of the time) seemed to be disagreeing with what I would call an agreement with God (and something my church prays and repents for). Had me confused. And not that I idolize Lincoln but I do believe that the man understood a lot. And reading this, he was a great man of faith and divine understanding. These statements are very true of the times we are in today.