Giving God the Credit

    Most Americans are patriots. Many of us are veterans. We love God, we love His Holy Son, we love our flag and we love our country. Most of us are not liberals about all facets of life and believe there are rules that God set out several millennia ago. 

   I don’t think anyone has God figured out, at least I do not. I study His book, both the Old Testament and New Testament and spend a lot of time trying to figure out what He meant by certain things that He said or actions that He took. But one thing I have noticed is that God does not brag, and He does not do a little dance when He performs a great miracle for us. Even though our world is all about God to two-thirds of Earth’s population, He never pats Himself on the back about His abilities. He did, however, cover the subject in the first two Commandments that He gave to Moses:

   “And God spoke all these words: ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

   ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

   ‘You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but sh ...

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