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Americans Now Have A Window Of Opportunity To Fortify Our Nation’s Moral Foundation
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ne week ago, Americans spoke loudly and clearly to keep the American experiment alive. God has spoken—that’s his sovereignty. And the people have voted—that’s our responsibility. Yes, sovereignty and responsibility go hand in hand.
I am thankful that the candidate I believe will best maximize righteousness and minimize evil in this nation has been placed in the top position of power. I know many Christians have been praying for the election through Election Day, but we must still continue to pray.
✪ Pray for a peaceful transition from the Biden Administration to the Trump Administration.
✪ Pray the Lord will give President Trump’s new administration the wisdom and efficiency necessary to fix many of the problems impacting Americans.
✪ Pray President Trump will surround himself with and appoint into positions of influence people who love the Lord and have a biblical worldview.
✪ Pray for salvation for President Trump and that he would lead in a humble and godly way.
✪ Pray President Trump and his administration will take a stand for life, protecting the lives of unborn children
We also rejoice that three states—Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska—rejected amendments that would’ve enshrined abortion into their state constitutions and overturned all pro-life laws in their states. Praise the Lord for those who voted to preserve innocent life!
A few years back, I visited the National Archives here in Washington, D.C., with a member of Congress. We had the rare privilege of seeing some of our nation’s founding documents — papers not typically on public display. It wasn’t a “National Treasure” type of adventure, but an unforgettable moment for a student of history like myself. One of the documents we viewed was the original U.S. Senate’s markup of the Bill of Rights, sent over from the House in 1789.
Another was a simple but profound page: George Washington’s inaugural address, delivered on April 30, 1789. His speech was brief — only about 10 minutes — but the words were powerful. As he took his first steps as the leader of a new nation, Washington said:
“Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained: And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
From the very beginning, our republican form of government — placing the power to govern into the hands of the people — was viewed as an “experiment.” Why? Because nothing like it had ever been tried before. Self-government, grounded in the Rule of Law and crafted for a nation this vast and diverse, was unprecedented. The Constitution was new, untested, and the Founders knew that true power now rested with the people, not a monarchy or ruling elite. They also understood that this experiment depended not only on good laws but on a bedrock of virtue and morality, rooted in timeless truth.
John Adams captured this reality in 1798. “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people,” he insisted. “It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Washington had previously stated this point in his Farewell Address in 1796. This grand experiment of ours, he reminded us, could not survive if truth and morality were ignored or discarded.
And thank God, there are still Americans who understand that reality today — who saw that what Kamala Harris offered was an agenda that would have aborted this experiment and snuffed out our hard-won freedoms.
But we can’t be lulled into complacency. The American Experiment isn’t on autopilot; it is never “safe and secure” and our work is far from over. Right now, we have an opportunity, a window, to fortify the moral foundation of this experiment — to restore, promote, and protect what Washington called the two great pillars of our political prosperity: religion and morality.
We are very grateful to the Lord for so many of the decisions that were made in this election. Let’s continue to pray for this great nation and for those who are leading it. As the Scriptures declare: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.✪
