I didn't go. I am not wild about crowds, or heat, or evangelical gatherings. But I did watch. And I was surprisingly moved. I am not a Glenn Beck fan. His TV personality is more than I want to deal with. And after yesterday it's obvious he is not an orator, but I was still impressed.
The crowd was mesmerized. The ministers of all faiths never unlocked arms. Beck challenged us to bring God back into our lives, and our families, and our communities, and our country. His message gave me chills.
He's right. We need to be more about love and those God-given principles that give humans an edge over animals. We need to exemplify what's good and fair and right. All things "virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy."
It's been said that the Elders of Israel will be instrumental in saving the Constitution when it is all but destroyed, when it 'hangs by a thread'. But before they can save it, they need to understand it. Before they can understand it, they need to want to.
Beck (and others) felt a need to light a fire and stir our curiosity to study the Constitution, to know it, to believe it, to trust it. To trust God's divine role in its origin; to believe that he established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom he raised up unto that very purpose.
Beck (and others) felt they needed to remind those who are fighting for liberty that theirs is a great calling, to help them recognize in humility the great challenge ahead.
You never know when God will beckon. Yesterday he was waving madly.
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