We Worship a Blessing God

March 20

(Psalms 33:12 NIV) “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance.”

(Matthew 28:19 NIV) “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, {20} and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

God blesses nations that worship Him. But in recent days, our nation has turned hostile. God has been written out of our laws and banned on public property. We no longer have one God, but many gods. The blessing of God is played down; human achievement is played up. Faith-based national holidays have been co-opted by consumerism. One by one, institutions founded to bring honor and glory to God (hospitals, colleges, and churches) are selling out to godless thinking. We have turned our backs on God, and we are experiencing the withdrawal of God’s blessing. When a nation spits in the face of God, there are consequences. If we continue to trivialize God and ban the name of Jesus in all things public, the nation will continue to decline. There is only one road back: genuine and heartfelt repentance. It begins right here at home. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day