112. Lord, Please Forgive Us Anew
To our shame, our devotions grew casual,
Even though You had always been there,
When our nation was born, and later, when torn,
By evils that threatened despair.
How soon we forgot “Founding Fathers”
Whose success against tyrants was due,
To Your care, to Your love, to Your strength from above,
Which created the wonders we view.
Through the years, tyranny kept returning,
And our need made us reach out again,
And we bled, and we cried, and the best of us died,
Fighting foes with dark souls lost to sin.
New perils compel new petitions,
We must learn lessons lost from our past.
Without Thy protection and renewed affection,
We will lose this free land that must last.
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QUOTES:
1. Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress: December 1, 1862
“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
2. Ronald Reagan:
“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me.”
SCRIPTURES:
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Nephi 1:5
“But, said he, notwithstanding our afflictions, we have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all other lands; a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me should be a land for the inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord hath covenanted this land unto me, and to my children forever, and also all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of the Lord.”
2 Nephi 10:19
“Wherefore, I will consecrate this land unto thy seed, and them who shall be numbered among thy seed, forever, for the land of their inheritance; for it is a choice land, saith God unto me, above all other lands, wherefore I will have all men that dwell thereon that they shall worship me, saith God.”
Ether 9:20
“And thus the Lord did pour out his blessings upon this land, which was choice above all other lands; and he commanded that whoso should possess the land should possess it unto the Lord, or they should be destroyed when they were ripened in iniquity; for upon such, saith the Lord: I will pour out the fulness of my wrath.”
To our shame, our devotions grew casual,
Even though You had always been there,
When our nation was born, and later, when torn,
By evils that threatened despair.
How soon we forgot “Founding Fathers”
Whose success against tyrants was due,
To Your care, to Your love, to Your strength from above,
Which created the wonders we view.
Through the years, tyranny kept returning,
And our need made us reach out again,
And we bled, and we cried, and the best of us died,
Fighting foes with dark souls lost to sin.
New perils compel new petitions,
We must learn lessons lost from our past.
Without Thy protection and renewed affection,
We will lose this free land that must last.
(c) servingjesuspoetry.com
All commercial rights reserved.
QUOTES:
1. Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress: December 1, 1862
“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
2. Ronald Reagan:
“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me.”
SCRIPTURES:
2 Chronicles 7:14
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Nephi 1:5
“But, said he, notwithstanding our afflictions, we have obtained a land of promise, a land which is choice above all other lands; a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me should be a land for the inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord hath covenanted this land unto me, and to my children forever, and also all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of the Lord.”
2 Nephi 10:19
“Wherefore, I will consecrate this land unto thy seed, and them who shall be numbered among thy seed, forever, for the land of their inheritance; for it is a choice land, saith God unto me, above all other lands, wherefore I will have all men that dwell thereon that they shall worship me, saith God.”
Ether 9:20
“And thus the Lord did pour out his blessings upon this land, which was choice above all other lands; and he commanded that whoso should possess the land should possess it unto the Lord, or they should be destroyed when they were ripened in iniquity; for upon such, saith the Lord: I will pour out the fulness of my wrath.”