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Dear David,
In 1863 as America's Civil War was coming to a close, Abraham Lincoln wrote in his Thanksgiving Proclamation. . .
"We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own."
Is this not true of America today? Even worse?
As we increasingly rely on men, government, technology, money, and a multiplicity of diversions, including sports, alcohol, sex and drugs, to satisfy our worldly and fleshly desires in the "pursuit of happiness", have we not 'vainly imagined' we no longer need the God of our Fathers, nor the fullness of LIFE found only in Jesus Christ?
Like the Samaritan woman at the well who did not know Who it was that was speaking to her, Jesus said . . .
"If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is Who says to you, "Give me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
(A metaphor for the deeply satisfying and fulfillment of what Jesus spoke of when He said)
"I am the way, the truth, and the Life." that she knew not of. (John 14:6)
"...whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
John 4:10,14 NKJV
And to her he said, "...the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
John 4:23-24
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