Happy Fourth!

Having moved back recently to my homeland of Singapore (with my beautiful American wife and son!), I look back with fond memories to my years in the U.S.  I am grateful to America for giving me the opportunity to study within her borders, to enjoy for ten years a little of the American dream, and of course, to be blessed by the friendships I’ve made.  America never ceases to amaze me.  Such an open, generous, gracious, and justice-hungry land.  I continue to stand with her.  I continue to believe that she is a force for good in this world.  To whom will the other justice-hungry people of the world look for aid?  To whom will nations flock to taste freedom and learn how to live as free people?  America is not the Kingdom of God.  There is much in her that is dark, twisted, misshapened, and evil.  But at the same time, something of our Lord’s kingdom shines in that land, a flicker of the realm of sunlight and justice to come.  I hope that America never loses its sense of purpose.  She was made to set people free.  She was made for justice and liberty for all.