Well said Victoria.

That picture of our forefathers humility before their Creator and Judge is a stark contrast to so much of what we see today.

Proverbs 16:18 warns us that "Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling."

What is the fruit of our friendship with this world? What does the Word say?

James 4:1-10 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

I think the warning and call to our nation is clear. Do we need the grace of God? Then we must humble ourselves before Him.

What's His promise?

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility.

Keep up the good work.

As for god..."A man without god, is like a fish without a bicycle."

I see it differently...

“As for God, a man who rejects Him becomes like a fish and no longer needs a bicycle.

When we refuse to acknowledge our Creator, our experience of life is reduced to the likes of a fish in a muddy pond. We can look up and see the sun and the sky and perhaps some grass and trees on the bank, but we see it through murky water in wavy distorted lines. We lose the capacity to experience the life for which we were created.

We were made to breathe the air and ride our bicycle through forests and deserts and valleys and mountains. We were meant to experience the snow and rain and the sun and the rainbow. We were meant to smell the smell of a delicious Animal-Style Double-Double as it gets lovingly passed through the window of our car at lunch time!

But alas, when we suppress the truth about God in our desperate efforts to ease our conscience of the nagging sense of our accountability to Him, we also trade the full life in Him that He has created us to enjoy for a life of darting among the reeds, fearfully avoiding predators, protecting our square inch of sand, and dining on flies and worms.

But when a man turns to God in repentance and faith in His Son, God restores his lungs and legs and teaches him to ride!

Amazing Grace! How Sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
I once was legless, but now I ride. Had gills, but now I breathe!