Today is the National Day of Prayer. The following thoughts, with which I concur 100%, were written by Bill Wilson and shared in The Daily Jot. "The National Day of Prayer Task Force rightly points out that this country was birthed in prayer with the God of the Bible--the God of Jews and Christians. When the 1775 Continental Congress called the people to pray for wisdom in forming a nation, it didn't ask countrymen to pray to allah. When President Abraham Lincoln asked the nation to set aside a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer in 1863, he didn't ask the country to do it in the name of buddha. When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed Thursday, May 7, 1981 as the National Day of prayer, he mentioned God, as in God Almighty, no less than 14 times, there was no reference to a god other than the God of Jews and Christians.

The first commandment found in Exodus 20:3 proclaims, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." Point is, that this nation is, as Ronald Reagan more eloquently said, a nation that was built by the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God. While others who worshipped other gods played a role in this nation, there is only one God and the Founding fathers understood it, and the presidents until this modern age understood it. Unfortunately, Presidents Clinton and Bush have driven this country away from the one true God with their concept of many roads to salvation. Ancient Israel's leaders did the same and it led to their nation's demise and to their people's captivity and slavery."