 We do not put you on the shelf when we gather in uniform to do these exercises, but we put you in the forefront. Lord, you have the yearning, the love for us, the patience for us to work in our hearts that we may be drawn to know you, number one, and then be able to walk into your room, and we are grateful. Today I want to pray for a fractured nation, a nation that seems ever ready to pull itself apart. Jeffensteins mentioned the scripture that I've asked to be kind of our text today for Samuel 230. This is when Eli's sons, Eli the priest in Israel, his sons, they were wicked, and God had to put the smack down on them, and he said to them, far be it from me, those who honor me, I will honor. But those who disregard me, they will be of little regard to me, or they will be disdain. May you always remember to serve God first. May you always look to him. May he watch over your families and protect him.