Meditate on this!
Do
you weep over your unbelieving children, in many this is a hard truth;
we watch as they find happiness in things that are temporal. We help
them pick up the pieces when the temporal melts like the thin ice it is.
We point them again to Jesus who has overcome the world. John 16:25-33.
When
in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and
to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature and the nature’s God entitled them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to separation.
We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
there just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any
form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security…
Yes
this is the beginning statements found in “The Declaration of
independence” the Congress of 1776, then the thirteen States of the
United States of America. The last sentence of this great work of
freedom and independence reads
And
for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
The
thought in my mind is that a reoccurring evil is present with us these
days. Not a nation like Britain, but a history of men who desire to
dictate government from their own evils. Refusing to enforce laws for
the good of the people and enforcing laws on economy and prosperity that
destroy freedom. Laws that fatigue citizens into submission, exposing
our freedoms to the watchful eye of an enemy who in these days stand in
our cities and town, mocking our Constitution and have absolutely no
regard for being legal on all fronts.
I
do not know what you may think about this, but if you did give it just a
little thought you might not have to “spike” your hair today or hide
behind the ornaments hung on your face, lips and tongue. I believe that
we should memorize the Declaration of Independence and memorize James
Chapter Three. This just may help us get back to the basics of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Of course this is not the
solution… but it is a start!
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