The British have in their possession a vast political, legal and cultural gift. They have received a legacy that is deep and wide. It has as much future as it has past. But this makes them the objects of the envy and resentment of other people. These other people do not tell the British people how great this legacy is or how lucky they are. Rather they do whatever they can to obscure this fact. They mock what they envy. They charge the British with imagined offences, and many young people foolishly listen and believe that the blame is theirs. The British do not realise that is envy and rage that motivates other people, and that we must recognise the enmity of those who despise us. They never concede how great this legacy is or reveal any desire for it, even though their criticism of it are dependent on it. They impose on themselves the curse they suffer. They are their own enemy, and they wish to spread their unhappiness, and so they are our enemy too.
This is why we pray …..
Lord, bring all that have erred, and been deceived, into the way of truth. Strengthen those who stand; comfort and help the weak-hearted; raise up them that fall and in your mercy finally beat down Satan under our feet. Lord, forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and turn their hearts. Give us, with them, true repentance; forgive us our negligence and sin, and give us grace, by your Holy Spirit, to live our lives according to your holy Word.
