Portraits with Purpose

6. The Blessings of Liberty

Scripture: Isaiah 58:1-11a

Hymn:

"America!”

Meditation: “We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

 Freedom Is Only Found in Faith (Isaiah 58:1-6).

 Faith Is Only Proven in Action (Isaiah 58:7-8).

 Action Brings Approval from God (Isaiah 58:9-11a).

EMMA LAZARUS [1849-1887] Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

The New Colossus: Inscription for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor