"The British are coming, the British are coming" proclaimed Paul Revere as he rode horseback warning colonist that the King's army was drawing near. Up until this point, a bullet had not been fired between the mother-land and the new colonists; however, this night would be different - that is if the colonist would be willing to fight for their own personal rights and freedoms.
 
Part of the British army's orders was to find and arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock who were viewed as "rebels." Knowing this information, Revere hurriedly went to Rev. Jonas Clark's home in Lexington, Massachusetts where Adams and Hancock were staying the night. Upon hearing the news, the two men asked the pastor if the people of the town were willing to fight to which Clark replied that he had "trained them for this very hour; they would fight, and, if need be, die, too, under the shadow of the house of God."
 
The next day on April 19, 1775, "the shot heard round the world" rang out as 150 colonists defended themselves against an army of 700 highly trained and armed British soldiers. Who were the colonists? They were the initial group named the "Minutemen" and they were all members of Clark's church! At the end of the short battle, 18 Colonists, both white and black in skin color, laid dead upon the ground. "From this day," Clark stated while seeing his parishioner's lifeless bodies, "will be dated the liberty of the world." It was here that the road toward freedom as a "unalienable right" endowed "by their Creator" began - not simply for a newly discovered land that became America, but for an entire world.
 
Today, we have both an obligation and a responsibility to teach our children, grandchildren, and others how God Almighty formed and blessed this country we call the United States of America. We have a duty to recall God's hand on our land and how the determinations of heroes throughout our nation's history have continued to provide us with "unalienable rights" as given by "our Creator."
 
This weekend will you make a point to have prayer with your family for this nation and share thoughts on how God formed this land? Will you step out of the busyness of life and fulfill the responsibility within your family to discuss the historical truths of our great nation? Don't wait and rely upon others to do it for you! To remember what God has done and to pray for your country is YOUR responsibility! Thank you for doing it.