The Star Spangled

The Star Spangled Banner
Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What, so proudly we hail, at the twilights last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the barrenest night,
O’er the ramparts we watch, were so gallantly streaming,
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star spangled banner, yet wave?
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

Oh Say, Does that Star Spangled Banner Yet Wave?

Is it still there? Are we still, the land of the free and the home of the brave?
There are 2 questions there. One, is the question of the banner waving. That is the easy part of the question. We can buy a flag. We can wave it high. We can dress in red white and blue and the flag is waving. We can be the flag, if we like and celebrate the independence of our nation.
But, is it waving over the land of the free and the home of the brave? That, indeed is a harder question.
That is a harder thing to impose and fight for in our nation. The land of the free and the home of the brave, means more than wearing red, white and blue. It means being and supporting the things, the ideals and considerations principles and lifestyles that produce and multiply our freedoms and bravery.
Is the land still there? Is the flag still there? Are we still here?
When we stand and hold hand to heart believing and fighting to defend and give our children the rights and love for the land from which we hail, let us commit again to the biblical principles that God blesses with life and liberty. When we fall away from supporting those principles we are dulling the colors. We are defacing the nation and we are the graffiti on the landscape of freedom and liberty, when we do. We don’t want to be graffiti, do we?
Happy 4th of July

And the rockets red glare…
The bombs bursting in air…