A Nation for a Nation

Declaration of Indepdence, United States 1776, Israel 1948

A NATION SAT IN CHAOS on July 3rd, 1776. Divided between Loyalists, who honored the crown, Revolutionaries, who desired freedom from it, and those who hadn’t made up their mind. All around them the sands blew, winds of doctrine, laws outdated, new ones which had yet to be written. What would become of what was to be, of this people so divided?

Uncertainty tasted like gunpowder. Truth like lead. But the fate of these and of those in the future laid in God’s hands. Misunderstandings abounded, hatred was rife, and it seemed like what some wanted was too fragile to come to life. Except from the beginning, back before the first men came, a land had been decided, a place for God to dwell, and another for Israel to come into being.

How do these two cultures collide, the future and the past? A man named Abraham left his home to travel to a place unknown. From him came as many as the stars in the night sky, which multiply by the millions unseen, and from him, these can be counted more than the sands. Americans, Israelites, any who believe tied together by a divine promise. Because one would form, another would come into being.

Is God that forward-thinking? To plan a nation for a nation. To plan a cross from a nation. To plan a future bought by salvation. And will He do it again? He saved the world. Anyone who chooses to accept the Savior, born a Jew, raised a Nazarene. Killed a criminal. Risen the King of Kings. And now, seated in the heavens with the Father. God the I AM living in the hearts of His children through the Spirit, who brought these things into being.

He’s never finished liberating. He’s always saving. His hand on a people taken out of Egypt and a people whose scattered remnant gathered from the east and the west, from the north and the south to do the will of God which nailed them together.

“This redeeming justice comes through the faithfulness of Jesus, the Anointed One, the Liberating King, who makes salvation a reality for all who believe—without the slightest partiality.” (Romans 3:22 VOICE)

“And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.” (Genesis 15:5)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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