The headlines many years ago came from President John F. Kennedy when he said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country”.
The headline just last week spoke of President Obama saying that “Yes, we live in a land of the free, but we don’t live in isolation . . . . We have an obligation to take responsibility for others”.
The interesting thing is, Lord, that in a scientific survey, we Americans like our personal freedom more than we support “the greater good”. If anything is proposed that will take away our individual freedom, such as “gun control”, we balk. However, if something is needing to be done and it is couched in the phrase for the greater good, such as “we need to stem gun violence” we are more accepting.
However, and we’ve seen this, Lord, when it is for “the greater good” we have less energy for it.
God, may we care more for the great good and less about our individualism and individual rights.
In Jesus name, Amen
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