"'My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing…
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom’s holy light.
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!'
And Laura had a thought. The Declaration and the song came together in her mind and she thought: God is America’s king. Americans are free. They have to obey their own consciences. This is what it means to be free. 'Our father’s God, author of liberty —' The laws of Nature and of Nature’s God endow you with a right to life and liberty. Then you have to keep the laws of God, for God’s law is the only thing that gives you a right to be free. Laura had no more time to think about it. The others were urging her on." — Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
In America, the unwritten law of the land may be the separation of church and state, but that law was not codified or commanded by its King. If that law is held, it is held in treasonous defiance. America is not under her own authority. She exists for the glory of God. As such, she will either glorify her God by being a place for Him to rest His feet or she will reign with Him by reigning under His Law. She will be His footstool or His foot solider.
It is high time to remember what we used to know -- accountability is liberty. There is no freedom to be found in aimless frolicking. Because God is King, we are free. If He is not, we are not. To be free is to be bound by conscience and to be at liberty is to consider treason unconscionable.
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