Posted by
Harry on Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:49:58 AM
It will not be long now before we go to the polls to once again perform one of our most cherished duties, voting. Before you decide on the candidates of choice, I suggest you ask one question of them. Do they believe that the foundation of our government should be based on God's Holy Word? If they do not, then America's continual slide down the slippery slope into depravity will most certainly continue. The Law of Physics will most definitely be exhibited. If nothing impedes this slide, the movement down the slope will only increase in velocity.
Don't let them hand you the "hogwarsh," an old Oklahoman term, that the Constitution says there has to be a separation of church and state. That is simply not true, you will not find that in the constitution or any amendment. Francis A. Schaeffer, author of "Foundations for Faith and Freedom" points out that the first amendment had only two purposes. The first being that there would be no established, national church for the original states, like the Church of England, from which the colonists were fleeing. And secondly, that government should not impede or interfere with the free practice of religion, which seems to be exactly what is happening.
If you believe in God's Word, don't think you should not be involved with politics. That is part of the problem with this country today. Too many Christians sitting passively by and watching the non-believing, humanist elected officials trying to keep this country afloat while doing their best to keep God out. William Penn said, "If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." How far are we from this truism? Closer than you might think.
For example, Vernon McLellan, author of "Christians in the Political Arena" says he remembers a history professor that pronounced the average age of the world's greatest civiliizations to be about 200 years. He listed the following sequence of these civilizations:
"from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to courage;
from great courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage."
Where do you think America is in this sequence? Think about it, it does not look good for America, does it? It eems to me we are very close to approaching the state of bondage once again. Many of our citizens certainly have embraced the state of dependency.
I believe that the area of government most inundated by the unbelieving, atheistic, humanist individual is this country's court system. There are judges sitting on their thrones "making" laws, not simply "interpreting" laws as they should be doing. This is as good a place for the Christian, Bible believing voter to begin taking back our country as any.