A POEM FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY

Isaiah 58:2 - Yet day after day they seek me                                                                    
   and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that practised righteousness
   and did not forsake the ordinance of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgements,
   they delight to draw near to God.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD

What does it mean to call ourselves "one nation under God"?                              
        Why, every nation on this Earth is under God!  How odd
that we should proudly think ourselves more righteous than the rest,
        when nothing that we ever do is done at God's behest.
We disobey God's statutes and we violate God's laws,
        then wonder why the whole wide world won't rally to our cause.
But we're no worse than other lands, and better, too, than some.
        The truth is that God's kingdom has nowhere yet fully come.
But since a nation under God we dare to claim to be,
        we're more accountable to God for what we do, and we
who in our nation's anthem sing about the free and brave
        should make those words come true for all, and pray that God will save
the world from suffering the consequences of our sin,
        that every nation under God may God's approval win.