Hope Against Hope
Two hundred and forty-seven years ago this month, we the people of the United States of America had had enough and decided to form a more perfect union! But what gave this small group of now-former colonists any hope whatsoever that this fledgling nation would even survive, let alone thrive?! It is the same source from which we can have hope for our nation today! And, it is the very same source from which we can have hope for our own lives and families right now in these last days! The promises of God - Covenant promises! Let’s look at some things that our very first President, George Washington, said during his “first official act” representing the United States of America as a nation . . . “Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils...