George Washington stepped forth to answer the solemn call even before the Declaration of Independence was drafted. He risked everything. He presumed that his beloved home, Mount Vernon would be burned to the ground after he accepted the commander-in-chief position. Without his judgment at those critical moments in history there would be no United States of America. While it was a collective process of ordinary Americans, elite persons, and the army, it was General Washington without whom it could not have worked. He is the greatest leader in American History. If we are looking for role models in history, we need look no further.

The United States was not at that time united, it was a work in progress. Washington embodied the dream of a united nation when no one could agree on anything else, what the war had meant and what the future of this land would be. Whatever they finally came to believe in common, Washington stood for, thereby being the force that would bring them all together.

Washington walked away from absolute power, saying that "No single person can be above the law." This would be a different kind of nation, a Republic, in which all leaders, no matter how indispensable, in the end are dispensable, and that included himself.

We need to pray that the Lord will someday, in the near future, raise up a leader like President Washington to come to the aid of our hurting and floundering nation.

We are coming all too close to the prophetic scenarios that George Washington's visions told of.