SHCOC Daily Bible Reading

I was driving by a house in my neighborhood and I saw a sign. It said, “God Bless America.” I don’t have a problem with the sign or its message. Yet, it seems that we are always asking for God to bless us but we don’t spend a lot of time remembering that God has already blessed us many times over. I began to think, we should change the sign and say, “America Bless God.” Why? Well Amaziah in 2 Chronicles 25:14-16 was blessed by God to defeat the Edomites. As soon as the battle was over, Amaziah brought in the gods of a foreign country, set them up, and began to worship them. This angered our God and He sent Amaziah a messenger but Amaziah refused to listen to the prophet’s counsel from God. Maybe this is a stretch but isn’t this what we do in America? God has blessed us as a nation over and over and then we refuse to listen to His counsel from His Word. Paul says “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort…” (2 Corinthians 1:3). “Blessed” used by Paul comes from the word εὐλογητός (eulogētos) which if you look closely at this Greek word, you will see it is the etymology for the word “eulogy.” It means to speak well of someone, to bless, or to praise. This word is used in other biblical passages, for example, Genesis 14:20; Luke 1:68; Romans 1:25; 2 Corinthians 11:31; Ephesians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:3. Each of these examples shows that God is to be blessed. So, I say it is time we start blessing or praising our God and put some signs up that say, “America Bless God!” Maybe if Amaziah would have learned this, he might have continued to be blessed by God instead of ending up being cursed by God.