Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

• Genesis 5:24

“On September 21, 1789, he was confirmed as the first chief justice of the US Supreme Court, and he ended his political career as governor of New York, where he enacted laws for the emancipation of slaves.
”John Adams wanted to reappoint him to the Supreme Court, but this man had other things in mind-to advance the gospel. He became president of the American Bible Society, saying, ‘No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom … apart from the moral precepts of the Christian Religion. Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance, we will then be surely doomed.’

“In 1827, Jay fell ill. The doctor told William that it was fatal, and William shared the diagnosis with his father. Jay took the news in good spirits and seemed ‘unusually raised … with cheerfulness and animation.’ Someone told him he should share with his family the reason for his joy, to which he concisely replied: ‘They have the Book.’
“’When the tidings of his death came to us,’ said one American leader, ‘they were received through the nation, not with sorrow and mourning, but with solemn awe, like that with which we read the mysterious passage of ancient Scripture, “And Enoch walked with God, and He was not, for God took Him.”‘
“This is true of many of America’s Founding Fathers. They were Enochs.”

• Robert J. Morgan, 100 Bible Verses That Made America

In my recent trip to visit the grandchildren, the oldest of them went with me to Nashville, to sell used books and games.  One of the books that I purchased in return was 100 Bible Verses That Made America by Robert J. Morgan.  As we approach the 250^th anniversary of the birth of the USA, I thought I would do a condensed mini-series on some of these verses, four posts per week for a few weeks – maybe not all 100 verses.

The author is not saying that our founding fathers did not die, but many of them were godly men who walked with God.

When John Jay’s wife died with him at her side, he ushered the children into another room and read the entirety of 1 Corinthians 15.  The children mourned the loss of their mother with the knowledge that they would be reunited when we are resurrected on the other side.

John Jay was a layman, but he wrote as if he were preaching.  His faith guided him throughout his life.

And it is the hope of any God-fearing man that through our life, we elevate God while serving God faithfully.

It would be a great honor to be remembered, not by name, only by a remembrance that he walked with God.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.