Right Over Wrong
🎻 Music Credit: “God’s Glory” from the album Soaking In His Presence (2018).
Composed by William Augusto
Heavenly Father,
We come before You with honest hearts in a noisy season.
There is a quiet truth many Americans feel but struggle to name: We have forgotten what our political parties were ever meant to represent.
We have traded principles for personalities. We have let loyalty to a label, a color, or a team become louder than loyalty to truth, honor, and the people we say we serve. We vote for faces and tribes instead of the posture of those who would lead us. We choose what is familiar over what is right. We defend systems that produce gridlock, debt, and division because they are “ours,” even when they no longer serve the republic they were meant to protect.
Forgive us, Lord.
This was never the design. The men who built this nation warned us against permanent factions that would place party above people and power above principle. They gave us a government of the people, by the people, for the people — not a machine that runs on loyalty and fear.
Yet here we are.
Raise our expectations, Father. Help us remember that politics is not left versus right. It is right versus wrong. It is character versus performance. It is humble service versus the grasping for power. It is the quiet courage of ordinary citizens versus the spectacle that has replaced statesmanship.
Grant us the clarity to see the difference — and the courage to choose accordingly.
Bless those who refuse to be owned. Independent leaders who step forward not because they crave the spotlight, but because they cannot in good conscience remain silent. Men and women who posture themselves as stewards of the people’s trust, not masters of it. Who, like Lincoln, are bound not to win every fight, but to be true. Who understand that power was never the goal — responsibility was. And responsibility still demands truth, even when it costs.
It is up to us, Lord.
Not to wait for saviors from within broken systems. Not to excuse what we would have condemned in another generation. But to raise our own internal standard so high that leadership has no choice but to rise with it.
Give us the strength to take the 30-inch step. To cast our light where cynicism has grown dark. To demand honor where there has been only performance. To listen for the quiet citizens willing to lead from conviction rather than calculation.
This country is already great. Help us make it greater — together, today — not by defending what is broken, but by remembering what was meant to be whole.
May we become a people who expect more from those who lead us, and even more from ourselves.
In the name of Yeshua, who washed the feet of His disciples and taught that the greatest among us is the servant of all, may that same posture of service return to the heart of this republic.
For the sake of our children, our veterans, and the generations yet to come — and for Your glory.
Amen.
