Does America Need Jehova

Does America Need Jehova

Dear Editor:

For 50 years incessant war has been waged in our country against Christianity. A largely successful attempt has been made to drive the name of, influence and respect for Christianity, its founder and its God from the public life of the nation. Leading the attack has been groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Citizens for the American Way. They have been eagerly backed and supported by secularists of all stripes and kinds plus other non-Christian religious groups who benefit when Christianity is relegated to the back streets of American life. Many of those who have used their influence and power to push the Christian God out of public life are themselves members of our governing and judicial systems.

Now terrorists have succeeded in attacking and destroying the World Trade Towers, in damaging the Pentagon and inflicting massive casualties many political leaders, and TV commentators are urging us to pray for God's help in this hour or crisis. Perhaps it is time for those who have labored to be free from any Christian impulse and to keep such influences out of public life to decide if in fact we need to ask Jehovah for help in this hour of need. If, as they say, open expressions of faith in God in public institutions are bad and undesirable, how do they justify this exception?

The fact is America desperately needs Jehovah. We need more than the National Anthem at a ball game and a reference to God on our money, more than hollow words by politicians who are running for election. We need nationwide repentance and return to Jehovah. Consider these reasons why we need God back in the heart of our national life: "The kingdom is Jehovah's and he is the ruler over the nations" (Ps. 22:28). "The Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men" (Dan. 4:17). God raises up kings (rulers) and removes them (Dan.2: 21). "Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah" (Ps. 33:12). Nations that forget God will be turned into hell (Ps. 9:17). Nations as well as individuals reap what they have sown (Gal. 6:7). "Except Jehovah keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain" (Ps. 127:1). God expects his people to offer up "supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings...for all men; for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life..." (I Tim. 2:1-2). We can be sure that the fervent prayers of the righteous can and will avail much (James 4:16).

In times like these the nation does not look to the Larry Flynts, the Hugh Hefners; the magnates of Wall Street, the Spielbergs and Streisands of entertainment? They look to God and they want Christians to respond to the need with their compassion and prayers. Those who curse and despise God in good times are on poor footing to call upon Him in a crisis. Those who fight against God, to make our nation secular, have no ground to call upon Him when their secular world crumbles beneath their feet. While the secularists wring their hands and gnash their teeth God's children can sing with David, "Jehovah is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? … Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident” (Ps. 27:1-3).

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