Today is the 4th of July weekend, so that means one thing in most church’s across America they are having what is know as The God and Country service. This is most generally a service to honor our current and formal military. Many church’s will play the service songs. (each branch of the military has it’s own song; The Navy has Anchors Away. and the Air Forces has here we go into the great blue wonder and the Army, Marines, and Coast Guard all have their songs) then when each song is played the members of the congregation that were in that branch of service would stand. After the songs are over the congregation would clap or sometimes they would give a standing ovation to the service people. And then the pastor or song leader would always say something to the effect that “it’s because of these servicemen that gives us our freedom” and then as they say the crowd goes wild. Well I suppose it’s alright to wrap yourself around the American flag while holding your Bible, but let’s think about that for a minute. First how did I pick this hymn to be the song of the day? I took out my Baptist Hymnal and in the back of the hymnal is the topic index I looked up the topic Freedom and found this hymn listed. Maybe the reason this hymn was listed was that the topic wasn’t Freedom dash military glorification it was Freedom dash spiritual. The songs listed were; Free from the law-Free to be me-New born again-New life for you-There is a name I love to hear-There is power in the blood-“Whosoever” meaneth me-Why do I sing about Jesus, in other words it’s a list hymns that was not sung in any church today!
What ‘s wrong with holding your Bible while wrapping yourself in the American flag? You either have to change your politics in fit your beliefs or you have to change your beliefs to fit your politics. The Apostle Peter would have no problem telling you what’s wrong with it. It was the Apostle Peter who walked on water with Jesus, that is until he begun to sink. Why was Peter sinking? Because he took his eyes off of Jesus. If we place our eyes to the military or politics or even our love of our great country, we are endanger of taking our eyes off of Jesus.