O God, our teacher, show us the way that we may walk in it. Encourage us to set aside the things that vie for our allegiance that are not of You and let go of the issues so close to our hearts that we cannot imagine You would offer us any other option.
In these days, when it seems that we receive only the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, we wait for You to reveal yourself. Do not hide yourself but allow us to see with our own eyes Your abiding presence, to hear with our own ears whether we turn to the right or to the left, Your voice speaking Your clear guidance: This is the way. Walk in it.
Wait no longer to be gracious to us. Rise up and show us mercy. O Lord, God of justice, we wait for Your blessing on this day.
In the strength that is only found in Your name, do we pray. Amen.
Isaiah 30:18, 20–21
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
—Patrick Henry
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