God Keep Our Land
Just a couple of days ago Canada, my home country, celebrated its 148th birthday. Tomorrow our neighbours to the south will celebrate their Independence Day. So I thought it was interesting that my reading this morning should take me to Psalm 33:12, which says: “ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage .” Of course the psalmist was referring to Israel as God’s covenant people, but both Canada and the US were founded on Christian principles and continue to EXPECT divine favour as privileged first-world nations. How quickly we forget the fate of an Israel that abandoned her God. Over forty years ago, Francis Schaeffer wrote a little book called Death in the City . Even back then he preached the message that his beloved Europe was under the judgment of God for having abandoned Him. He gave the lectures upon which the book was based while on tour in the US. and applied the statements he made about Europe to North America. Our drift away ...