During WWI there was a famous JM Flagg poster that portrayed Uncle Sam pointing at the reader declaring “I want you for the US Army.” This poster morphed over the years and has taken many different forms. There are hundreds of pictures of these posters on the Internet. Seeing one of the posters recently got me thinking about the idea: America Needs You!
America does Need You!
America needs you to pray
America needs you to pray for the President, Vice-President, House of Representatives, Senate, and the Supreme Court, the military leaders, business and finance leaders. Our country needs the wisdom of God.
America needs you to love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength
When each of us loves God the way we are meant to then our priorities end up in the right order, we spend our money correctly, we put people before things and not things before people. I heard Pastor Lindus say one time “Never love something that can’t love you back.” It is easy to use people and love things when we have our priorities in the wrong order. The correct priority is to love people and use things.
America needs you to love your neighbor as yourself
When each of us loves our neighbors as we should the world becomes a place of peace, creativity, stability and prosperity. When we fail to love our neighbors, no matter who they are or how different they are than us, the world becomes a place of conflict, creativity is stifled, instability becomes a way of life and prosperity is out of reach. The Scriptures talk about how easy it is to love someone like you or who loves you. The challenge given by Jesus 2000 years ago to love our neighbor was not a challenge to love those like us or who love us. The challenge was to love those who are different than us and who maybe don’t like us.
America needs these attitudes and actions from every one of us. America needs you to pray. America needs you to love God. America needs you to love your neighbor.
Matt
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