He stood before the people and declared, “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. We have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all of the blessings that we see in our country were produced by superior wisdom and virtue of our own.” These words are clearly true for today but believe it or not, they were spoken by President Abraham Lincoln. If his words were true in the 1860’s, they must surely be an understatement today.

Today the United States refuses to remember its own history. Our citizens are completely clueless of our national beginnings. On September 6, 1620, one hundred souls seeking Christianity without government intervention, set sail from Plymouth, England. After two months of sailing on the Atlantic, fifty remaining souls landed in the dead of winter, at what is now Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Sundays were not a casual day for sports, recreation, or shopping. In the early years, John Winthrop preached a message asserting that all people conduct themselves according to Micah 6:8, “to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.” He said, “We will then become a city on a hill and the eyes of all the world will be upon us.” How prophetic. The Pilgrims were not perfect by any means, but they knew beyond all doubt that all blessing and provision came from the God of the Bible.

Folks, we can learn from history. The strongest fort will receive the fiercest attacks. By not maintaining a vigilant guard, the United States has squandered its strength by taking its focus off Jesus Christ, but you don’t have to.Refuse to be that person who whines about having so much to do, or saying, “I’m too tired for church.”

Refuse to neglect prayer and fellowship. Refuse to neglect your Bible time, but DO NOT refuse to remember the truth about America’s Christian roots, and our Great Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Refuse to Neglect Jesus Christ
Pastor Huck