Life on earth is just temporary and short anyhow, and America was not perfect....although, it was a great place compared to most other places because of its devout beginnings.
It is true-—Pride cometh before the Fall. We seem to be going down pretty hard.
Yes... meaning of course the kind of pride that boasts on self.
I’m not saying that America had NO distinct, gospel-borne features. It certainly did. Where it went with that, was up to it. And it staggered around and eventually came to the current flop.
Anyhow, the root promises and commands of the gospel never changed for individuals. Now that “pride in America” has gone pretty much into a nostalgic rear view mirror, I am actually hoping that “glory in God” will make a resurgence among its people, under a pure(r) New Testament model, rather than one that tries to pattern America after a hybridized Old Testament model. Love hopes all things and so that is what I hope. That could actually blow the socks off of the old America because it wouldn’t be trying to turn it into a province of the Old Testament any more, which is a shadow and a distraction.