"Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.” (Jeremiah 2:32)
It would be strange indeed for a young bride-to-be to forget the attire she intended to wear to her wedding or the ornaments with which she would adorn herself for the wedding. Ask the average married woman to tell you what she wore on her wedding day and she can tell you precisely. Fifty or sixty or more years afterward she can tell you to the last detail what she had on.
However, Jeremiah the prophet of God said that the people of the nation of Judah had forgotten God, “days without number.” Apparently they had not talked to God in prayer nor had they thought of His commandments. They were bowing down to strange, lifeless idols. As far as they were concerned God was a distant relic from the past.
I fear that the United States of America has the same problem. The God of George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards is just a paragraph in an all but forgotten history book for many folks.
It is time to think again of the God of the Bible, the God of our founding fathers.
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