The Devotional - A Look at the Book #807

by Jesse Abel

A Word from Papa “J”

 

So many people say to me that they only read this little section of the devotional, thus my response of yesterday. Certainly we can do better than that! The idle mind left unchecked is a dangerous weapon of self-destruction. Proverbs 19:15-16

 

Good Morning

There was once a battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, you might have heard of it! A battle of a warrior named Tecumseh an Indian Chief and a man named William Henry Harrison. This was the final battle of a sixty year war; The Indian seeking to defend his homeland from being overrun by the “paleface” and the white man seeking to take away from the Indian his family, his nation and his freedom and pursuit of happiness.

There are few if any children today playing “Cowboys and Indians” since it is politically incorrect as a parent to let your child play this game. It is more humane to let them become obese and experts in video games of different kinds of war; wars that warp the young mind. Also, there are the movies of these two cultures, the Indian and Paleface fighting one another these have faded away and we say and we say; that's progress.

I have a question: Does history repeat itself? The Indian finally gave up and now, we the people of the United States have a similar battle. In sixty, plus or minus five years; somewhere around 1950 someone said, “It is a violation of the separation of Church and State to have the Ten Commandments displayed in our public schools” and with little resistance the Word of God is ripped off the walls and out of the minds of our young people.

Thus the steady regression of what once made the citizens of the United States of America great and full of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness began eroding. Soon, with God's Law removed from the minds of our young adults, came the erosion of our civil laws which govern the nation.

We began killing babes through the choice of abortion; what was once a crime became legal. In order to deal with life young people began allowing drugs to warp their mindsets, rebellion on the college campus and in our local neighborhoods, civil laws stripped out of our local states for more federal control, children killing children and committing suicide and the aggressive erosion of our U.S. Constitution. Many of us are just giving up!

Like Tecumseh and his family we are giving in to evil and we will see the end result. History 101 is about to become – History 101.1 (James 4:13-17)