The devotional - A Look at the Book #853

by Jesse Abel

Thoughts from Papa “J”

 

How far has corporate America traveled the destructive highway? I was looking at a pair of PJ’s from my night stand drawer and saw the word… GRANDE and thought for a moment that the clothing was made in Mexico. After inspection, I found out these were made in China. Who knew that the Chinese provided sleep-ware for both the North and South American Continents? Proverbs 11:1

 

Good Morning

 

The Monroe Doctrine was a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

 

The Doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved independence from the Spanish Empire (except Cuba and Puerto Rico) and the Portuguese Empire. The United States, working in agreement with Britain, wanted to guarantee no European power would move in.

 

President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress. It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U.S. statesmen and several U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan and many others.

 

The intent and impact of the Monroe Doctrine persisted with only minor variations for almost two centuries. Its primary objective was to free the newly independent colonies of Latin America from European intervention and control that would make the New World a battleground for the Old. The doctrine put forward that the New World and the Old World were to remain distinctly separate spheres of influence, for they were composed of entirely separate and independent nations.

 

As Citizens of the United States of America (the few million remaining Red Blooded Americans) are at a defining moment in the foreign policies of the United States and our Constitutional Rights as Citizens. Our national defense systems are being traded off for passive words, not words of a coward, we could deal easily with that; but passive words of men and women who are despots. Thus our Sovereignty as One Nation under God stands at the brink of a cliff that is more alarming and more dangerous than the mockery of being on a fiscal cliff which is nothing more than a political blindfold disguising our real dangers.

 

As Americans we need to get our heads out of the sand and back on the solid Rock. Notice what Jesus has to say in Matthew 7:24-27. We need to read this and be challenged that Jesus is talking to His nation Israel and to individuals who will respond to His teaching regarding the kingdom of heaven at hand. Matthew 7:28-29 and Luke 13:22-35. If we do nothing our house (nation) will be left desolate. Please pray for the United States daily.