Our National Motto

If I were to ask the average American Joe or Jane what our national motto is, do you think they could tell me? Do you think they would even care? Well if you've been a reader of my blog for any time at all, you've probably guessed that it has something to do with God. Well you'd be right. It's "IN GOD WE TRUST."

This all came about because a simple preacher wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase in 1861 proposing that we should acknowledge Almighty God on our money because it would- "relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my hearth I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters."

From 1938 until the present, that statement of faith has been on virtually every form of American currency.

A law passed by the Joint Resolution of the 84th Congress and approved by the President on July 30, 1956 declared "IN GOD WE TRUST" the national motto of the United States of America.

Notice that our motto isn't "IN god WE TRUST", or "IN gods WE TRUST." It signifies the one true GOD above all other gods. It's really scary how prophetic that simple preacher's concern about disowning God was when you read and hear about the ACLU and other groups passionately trying to eliminate any and every mention of the Triune Godhead.

Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance.

Isaiah 60:12 For the nation and kingdom which will not serve You shall perish, And those nations shall be utterly ruined.

Are we as passionate about TRUSTING in our GOD?