Build An Altar

Genesis 12:3,7 ESV
“I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.”’

Thanksgiving has become, in the media, a forgotten holiday, mostly because the American people as a whole are not thankful people. America is in decline. Most have regressed to angry people, people that are dissatisfied with anything and everything. We look like the rest of the world.

Our only hope for America, is for the Christians to rise and be the living example of Christ. To be a thankful people, to be a people that are joyful and excited of what God is doing, even if we do not like the way the country as a whole is turning.

Abraham (still Abram at this point) in this story received the promises of God, and in response He built an altar to God and used it to worship God. Why did Abram build the altar? Abram had great faith in God and building the altar in response to God speaking to him. The altar represented Abram’s submission to God and an honor to God.

So why a devotion of building an altar to God? We need, as God’s children, to commemorate, not in building a physical altar, but in living our lifestyles and standards, that God has spoken to us, to rise up above the ashes in America and proclaim that we are blessed above all nations.

I realize that we are in troubled times, but if we stay passive, we will allow the enemy to destroy what millions of Americans have fought and given their lives for to keep us a free nation. Thank God for those who have fought and served our country.

Prayer:
God, save our nation from the peril that we are in. We have become less than who You wanted us to be as one nation under God. Today and every day, help us to build an altar by living our lives as an example of who You are in us, for the world to see. God our country is in trouble, and we need You desperately! Thank You for what You have done and will do through us, Amen!