Happy Independence Day!
This week, I have been thinking about how much courage God gave the signers of the Declaration of Independence 245 years ago. These men, who are known as the Founding Fathers, risked everything so that we can be free! They and their families could have been killed. Incredibly, they committed treason against the most powerful nation in the world at the time. It was like a cartoon in which the itty-bitty, unorganized, underdog colonies told the giant monarch with a vast military that he was wrong. They gave him twenty-seven reasons why! How could anyone do that without the confidence of God's protection? How could such a ragtag army possibly succeed? Obviously, the founders were tools in God's hands, and the majority of them knew it. I praise God for the United States of America and celebrate the Patriot's success. Happy Independence Day!