Sacred Fire

Pray for me! I am starting a new book today, "George Washington's Sacred Fire," by Peter A. Lillback. The reason for prayer is that it is only 843 pages long with another 400 or so pages of supporting documents! By the way, I don't currently have plans to read all of the supporting documents.

The reason I bought this book, which is a #1 National Best Seller, is that it is a definitive work dealing with the question, "was George Washington a Christian or merely a Deist?." I think this is an important question whose answer can more clearly identify some of the reasons for the situation(s) in which we find ourselves.

I look forward to the arguments in this book, even with its length, because I believe that we have been slowly led into believing that Christian principles and Godly leaders had less to do with the beginnings of our nation than was actually the fact. While we do not want to hold up some "holier than thou" attitude to the world, I believe that we are a great country because our founding leaders decided to form a nation based on Godly Precepts.

I admit that even if the book makes a powerful argument for Washington being a Christian, the question still remains, "So What?." Well, the answer might rest in the notion that anytime you forget your past (both good and bad), your future is shakey at best.

Yesterday on ESPN there was much discussion about football teams and their chances in the 2010 race to be World Champions. One recurring theme within discussions of all the teams was the danger of forgetting their strangths and going in other directions. Teams that have become strong franchises because they have been powerful defensive teams are now forgetting that and trying to beef-up their offence - to the detriment of "what brought them to the dance." The bottom line is - that will ultimately lead to mediocrity, at best, and complete failure at the worst.

Isn't that what we might be seeing in our country? I know it isn't clearly "black and white," but there seems to be a correlation between not holding fast to our Christian heritage and the breakdown of our society; our government; our leaders.

Maybe the thing that bothers me most is that modern society seems to want to discount anyone who claims Christ. Since the early part of the 20th century, historians in particular, and society in general, have decided that one of the greatest leaders this nation has ever experienced, was only a bland-type believer, at best, and his leadership style and his great accomplishments should not really be attributed to his ardent faith in Christ.

Well, we will see.