We Need a "Finest Hour" Moment

   One of my favorite people in world history is Winston Churchill, a man of many talents, a man whose career in England had many ups and downs, but who became the man of the hour in WWII, as he rallied the English people and military as they stood up to the overwhelming odds of a war of survival with Nazi Germany.

 

   I have just finished reading a part of his History of WWII, the volume entitled Their Finest Hour, the title of which is taken from one of his speeches to the people he served. The speech is here if you want to hear it as it was given:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKDGM5KTBY

   The famous line: 

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”

   One of the ironies of history is that once the enemy was defeated in 1945, and England once again could live in peace without the nightly bombing that they had endured, Winston was turned out of office. He had lived and he had served his people well during that time of crises, but it seemed like the people did not want to be reminded of that anymore, they wanted to move on and forget, as soon as possible, what had just happened.

   In our country, we are not abut to be overrun by a seemingly unconquerable foe, at least I don't see that near, but we are so caught up with our materialism and our pleasure seeking, along with our abandonment of God in so many places, that we need a restoration of values and morality. In short, we need a "finest hour" moment.

   And of course that turns my mind back to II Chronicles 7:14:

"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land."