The harder things are to acquire, the more valuable they become.
If you will only take a few moments to consider just how much of a great price that has been paid (most of which has been in spilled human blood) for our wonderful and precious freedoms, I believe you will have to admit that we Americans are indeed a blessed society,…an exceptional group of people,…a divinely chosen and protected lot. Of course, in order to fully understand and appreciate this last statement concerning our nation, you would have to have a good knowledge about the actual and true history of America from its discovery through its founding all the way up to the present.
You and I, as free Americans, have earned, have fought for, and have won and been rewarded with a great land mass to occupy and call home. Our land has been blessed by God (when it was first claimed for God and His purposes by the Pilgrims) and it has yielded its abundant harvested food stores annually from its own soils thereby enabling it to be self-sufficient and able to feed its own population. It is a well known fact that America is the “bread basket” of the world.
The primary Source for all of the great and glorious blessings that we Americans receive and enjoy is our great and most powerful Creator and Father,…God Almighty.
I will tell you the truth….We are free Americans today only because when this country we call home was discovered and founded in the early first quarter of the 17th century,…when the first Pilgrim’s feet hit the seashores of America, immediately their knees hit the sand. Once our wonderful land mass was discovered after a long and hardship-filled journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe had occurred,…our country-in-the-making was dedicated to God Almighty. The first Pilgrims were Christian Believers. They had left their old country(s) on the European Continent and sought for a new beginning in a country that was to be founded on and dedicated to the Truths of God and His precepts. The Pilgrim’s primary purpose for boldly striking out across the frightening seas for areas previously unknown to the European man, was to live in peace and freedom from intervention of or by,…any type of oppressive authority. They simply desired to live as Christians obediently dedicated to God and His instructions. Their new land called America was to be a “City-on-a-Hill.” It was to become a great source of divine “Light” for all the world to see and witness.
America was not just a chance discovery, nor was it just a luck-of-the-draw occurrence. No,…it was to be much more than that. America was destined for greatness. It was to be the bastion of truth, hope, and freedom for all the world to see. It was to be a display case showing any observer(s) the right and proper way God desired for all of His children to live, grow, and raise their own families in peace and freedom from all manner of fleshly, earthly controls.
And so began the great new struggling society of Americans on the eastern seashores of this new land of opportunity called America. The Pilgrims were dedicated to God Almighty and His ways of living. The Preachers were to become the school teachers and the first educational textbook used in all the schools for educational purposes was the Holy Bible. The Truths of God’s Word were fed into the minds of the students on a daily basis! This bold new adventure-in-living was blessed by God, and grew and multiplied like wild-fire in a full can of gasoline. The Exceptionalism of America was obvious to all witnesses. The greatness and goodness of God flowed out over all parts of this new land and its people. History tells of all of the events.
But what then happened? What caused the challenges and problems that we are facing today as psuedo-free Americans? Apathy set in. People began to take for granted what God had given them. The gratefulness and thankfulness of the Pilgrims and settlers waned away and eventually dried up. The general population grew lazy and lost sight of the truth that Freedom Has A Price Tag. What happened can best be summed up by quoting the words of the great British Statesman, Sir Edmond Burke:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
What happened to America was the same as what happened to all the significant nations of the world as recorded in historical records,…the slippery slope of gradualistic liberalism overtook our nation. That very same “thing” is what is dragging our nation down to the brink of extinction as of today.
On a horizontal line starting from the “Right” and traversing to the “Left,” it goes like this:
Far right, Freedom and free enterprise (Private businesses owned and operated without any governmental controls and private property rights prevail). Moving to the left the situation reduces to gradualistic liberalism (governmental intervention and regulation). Moving further left the situation reduces to full and complete liberalism (Big government takes over the economy and all other areas of people’s lives). Moving further left the situation reduces to socialism (the government becomes part owner in everything, government gets bigger, unelected governmental control agencies and bureaucracies are created. The economic situation drops to the level of the equal sharing of misery and poverty. Big government takes complete control). And finally moving further left the situation degenerates into total communism. Government owns and operates everything, and all aspects of people’s lives are allowed, permitted, withheld, and/or fully controlled and regulated by an all encompassing Big Government. The situation devolves into the common and equal sharing of misery and suffering by all the people except for the handful of “elites” who are the “privileged ones” who greedily and luxuriously live off the production of the masses of the population.
If left unattended and/or if permitted to grow out of control of the masses of the general population,…communism will eventually become so torturous that revolution occurs and the masses then overthrow the oppressive governmental controls. The entire process begins anew back to the right side of the scales and conditions with freedom and free enterprise once again prevailing.
Recorded world history proves this cycle to be accurate. It also records that a free society normally has a life span of approximately two hundred + years. Let’s look at America…(1776–2015)…that’s 239 years! Sadly, it appears we are right on track with recorded world history.
The saddest and most sorrowful thing to witness is that every over-educated “intellectual” thinks he knows more than history proves,.. and worse,…thinks he knows more than does his own creator, God Almighty. God is a free enterpriser. God is a conservative, and God owns and controls everything in each and every person’s life whether they like it or not.
While liberalism thinks, speaks, and even believes that they know it all, that their way works the best,…the facts indicate otherwise. The trigger point of all the liberal policies and positions is the recognition, belief, and acknowledgement that man created God,…not the other way around. It is God and His Precepts that hangs up all liberal philosophy. Therefore , the liberal solution to societal control problems and events is to simply eliminate God from the scene. That is what is indeed happening in our nation today and has been happening for well over a century.
Here is a fact and truth of life: The Greater blesses,…and gives increase to the Lesser. The things of life just don’t happen the other way around. The fact is that God created man and the Creator is always greater than that which is created.
God is greater than is man. God owns and controls all things on earth and within the lives of man. Man will never control God!
Until this issue is recognized and accepted by the liberal ideology, not much is going to get better,…and one day we will eventually self-destruct.
Things need to change in America. It can and will only happen when God is brought back into the daily operations and activities of all mankind.
When good men and women prevail, the forces of evil are destroyed and goodness and mercy prevails and prospers everyone.
When the people individually get “right” with God and actually renew or establish a deep, growing, and lasting personal relationship with Him, then and only then will things change for the better in America.
The people who discovered and established our special and exceptional nation called America full well recognized these truths of life as they set up this nation beginning with the “Mayflower Compact.” They were fleeing the socialistic, communistic, and Royal Rule (Divine Right of Kings) that plagued Europe and it surrounding nations. They full well intended not to allow these scourges to be reestablished in their new found country in North America.
The biggest problem we face today as a nation is that we are not teaching our own children our true and real documented history and we are not teaching our own children our own system of economics, the Free Enterprise System.
These failures to teach our children has generated over many different generations a complete ignorance as to why America was and prayerfully will continue to be so blessed and prosperous.
Wake Up America…we all need to take our Constitutional Republic back as it was originally intended to be.
Peace and Love to All of You……………….Poppa Bear