Inauguration Day. My, oh my.

I ran across this quote by John Adams, our second President and signer of the Declaration of Independence, on another site this morning and the truth of it really struck me.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

And what about this little gem from Noah Webster, the author of our first dictionary:

"[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence."

Here's one from John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:

"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."

Wow, sure sounds like many of our forefathers felt that government without God was simply not going to work. I agree with them....on this *historic* Inauguration Day. (You can read more quotes HERE if you like.) I won't comment on these quotes any further...they speak for themselves.

And to quote Mr. Obama himself:

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

I may be wrong here, but I don't think he means we should get back to what our forefathers intended government to be. Have we, as a nation, gotten so big for our britches that we've outgrown God? It appears that we have. So now we need change. Any change from the original intent of what our government should be means moving away from God. Obama says "We" are the change we seek....obviously then, it's not HE (God) that he seeks.

I'll leave you (if you haven't already left) with a few quotes from the Almighty God Himself. He has the final word anyway.

"Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people."
Proverbs 14:34

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Psalm 9:17

Doesn't sound like too good of a change to me. We need to pray for our leaders in government. We're commanded to.

"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
I Timothy 2:1-6