Accountability Is Coming!
On a cold day in November, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made a short speech that would change history. The country was war torn. Unimaginable losses and pain had descended on the American people. One of the biggest battles of the Civil War had ravaged Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I can only imagine Lincoln as he looked out over the battlefield staring into the faces of Americans that were desperately searching for hope. Searching for relief. Searching for freedom from the current hell they were going through. Lincoln then spoke the following words that will live on for eternity.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
The last words of Lincoln’s oration seemed to echo through past eternity, traversing the foundation of the United States in 1776, piercing the crowd gathered at Gettysburg, and then resolutely launching off into America’s future landing powerfully now on November 5, 2024. History was made.
America today is searching for hope, liberty, and accountability. With the infamous victory of Donald Trump once again to Commander in Chief and President of the United States, that search is now attainable for every American. Like Lincoln, Trump appears to embrace the inalienable rights bestowed on us by our Creator God and principles that our Founding Fathers set into motion under the United States Constitution. The goal and mission is to bridge the apparent divide we are experiencing in this country. He is committed to an unfinished work; reuniting America; making it prosperous, healthy, and accountable.
We at WFA also have unfinished work. We are still fighting United Airlines to hold them accountable for breaking the law and harming their employees. And through this fight we seek to restore freedoms for all Americans. We have unfinished work to help educate and admonish our children and our grandchildren to seek accountability in the society they will grow up in. We have unfinished work to seek accountability in the healthcare system that is broken. The system that harmed so many Americans who just wanted their freedoms to choose what they put in their body. We want to be a voice for those who had none.
In the Bible, Ephesians 6 describes the unseen battle raging between good and evil. There is thankfully a solid defense against the onslaught of spiritual forces who want nothing more than to destroy the truth and exert control. We at WFA take that to heart and are “standing firm” against the onslaught. We seek accountability by telling the truth, standing for the truth, and fighting for it. Psalm 23 describes beautifully that our God is with us through it all, even through the valley of the shadow of death. So instead of fear, there is courage. Instead of control, there is hope. And that hope, we believe President Trump resolves to accomplish, is this. That “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Will you join us in this fight?