What We Are to Do with Our Freedom, Reflecting on Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 17-21 and Psalm 72

As we Americans prepare to celebrate our freedom, let us remember how God intends for us to use freedom:

• from Deuteronomy: Love the stranger. Worship only God. Remember that God executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

• from Psalms: May our rulers deliver the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper.