By Meeke Addison, On-Air Personality, American Family Radio
March 2010 – I am a Christian who worships the God of the Bible, the God to whom we have access through Jesus alone. I’m a wife, a mom, an employee of American Family Association, and a concerned citizen of the United States just like all of you here today.
If you read the Bible long enough, you’ll discover that judgment on a nation came when the people of God began to practice wickedness or overlook those who did. And quite often the result of God’s judgment was increased wickedness to the point where it became oppressive for the very people of God.
Humor me for a second as I remind you of what you already know. What has made America great has not been our financial savvy or our flawless civil history. No, what has made America great is that our founders had a radical grasp of Scripture and built a nation around it. Our founders were convinced of Psalm 33:12, which reads, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.” Contrary to what is fast becoming a politically correct, popular belief, America is great and has been great because the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of America.
Those who make policy, whom we elect, cannot tax us out of the moral decay they have led us into (many of us without a fight). We’ve hoped for better results when we’ve voted at the polls, but what we’ve seen has been an indictment upon our country with the passage of laws that disregard the sanctity of life and the sacredness of marriage as God has defined it.
Today, our nation under God starts with God activated in the lives of the people who make up this nation. We must be thoroughly convinced that what God has laid out in the Bible is true and applicable to all. Without that conviction, we are ineffective and always on the defensive.
If we want to see our nation under God, we must be a people under God. And as a people under God, our differences grow strangely insignificant as we realize that what we have in common is more eternal that what separates us. If we’re to be conservatives both fiscally and morally, then we must be able to support our conservative views with precepts from Scripture.
For example, if as conservatives we say a man should work and earn a living, then we must support this stance with Scripture. When we revisit the creation of man, we see that in Genesis 3:15, God placed Adam in the garden to tend and keep it. Work was not a punishment. It was a sacred trust from God. A handout is no longer helpful when it takes away the dignity of a man by taking away his drive for meaning and worth. This is a conservative value and it is Biblical.
Our nation under God happens when believers marry their convictions to their actions. We cannot be appalled in our pews and then passive at the polls. Our nation under God happens when we realize that a house divided against itself cannot stand. We cannot allow secular media or anybody else to divide us based on ethnicity or party affiliation. We are not angry, racist, white men … and if we are, no one told me!
Our nation under God happens when we cease to practice wickedness and cease to give our approval of those who do. When we elect officials with immoral policies, we are not only giving our approval but also providing a platform for those immoral practices to be carried out.
Our nation under God happens when His people, who are called by His Name, humble themselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways. His promise is that God will hear us, forgive our sin, and heal our land! It is not up to politicians to instruct us in Godliness, but it is up to us to elect politicians who will not lead the way in bringing judgment upon our nation.
Proverbs 29:2 warns, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” May we all remember this every time we head to the polls to vote our convictions. May we be a people under God for a nation under God. 
Meeke Addison is a native of New Orleans. She and her husband, Wil, who also works at American Family Radio, have two girls and a baby boy due in March.
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Tea Party Express
Contemporary Tea Parties began with an April 15, 2009, series of citizens’ gatherings across the nation protesting runaway, tax-and-spend federal government. The concept gained momentum as follow-up events continued through the year.
This year, the Tea Party Express will kick off March 27 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and, 19 parties later, conclude on April 15 in Washington, D.C. For more information: www.teapartyexpress.org.
