Monday.....Miscellaneous.....Why I Love America.....Redux

The following blog entry from April of 2009 describes my love for this country that I was fortunate enough to be born in. America is much changed and even further removed from its heritage since then. What will people say years from now, should we even advance that long? Will they love the socialism that spreads the misery around? Will they love the government that rules every aspect of their lives? Will they love scurrying at the beck and call of some world government? Will they love an America of enclaves such as of Sharia Law to La Raza? Will they love the opportunities their children have to serve a totalitarian state? Will they love being able to buy any government automobile they want, with a loan from any government bank they want to travel to anywhere in the approved radius they want? Will they love churches with regulated sermons. Will they love the way their lives are? No, they won't. As I wrote in the following blog, Alexis de Toqueville saw America's greatness in her pulpits. What he didn't know or could not predict is that our pulpits are subject to the same ebb and flow of society, subject that is as far as God's Spirit will permit them to be. Our only hope and the source of all the love we have for this nation is God's mercy upon us, and His patience which we have stretched to the point where it may cease.


"America The Beautiful" expresses the wondrous bounty God had bestowed upon this country. "Spacious skies, amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties " surely describe this land. I appreciate the beauty of this land and also the liberty that it was built upon, but I love this country for other reasons also. When I talk about America, I'm talking about it from its beginning when small ships carried whole communities across the ocean. I love it for its diversity. We have problems but we have overcome bigger ones. We have new challenges that almost seem insurmountable but it's not the first time. We have bonded together through a concept that demanded diversity of background but became unity as Americans. I love America because of the hope it has given the world, and the stability. I can write my opinion and speak it. I can pass out books without fear of intimidation. I can oppose iniquity and protest tendencies that are too close to tyranny for comfort. I love it most of all because God has used it to spread the gospel to every corner of the world. Everywhere I go, in the workplace, in the recreation and shopping arenas, vacation spots and at preserved historical landmarks, there are Christians. I can empathize with them, enjoy their fellowship, share my needs and pray for theirs. My son will find them at college, my wife and I will work with them, and many of our representatives will govern with Christ as their head. God has raised this nation and used it mightily, this is why I love it so. I write this blog because these things are in danger. The bond is disappearing. European immigration is occurring again but this time it is an immigration of philosophy (and ideology.) Illegal immigration, sponsored by politicians for political reasons does a great disservice to the legal immigrants who continue to bolster and favor us as they become one with us. Our corporations are becoming more international than American. Our activist courts look to international law, for American law will not suffice the paradigm change they envision. Our media is failing its calling and most importantly, the faithfulness of our churches to the gospel is at low ebb. Previous to revisionist history, we were taught that Americans were a special people who could do almost anything. The Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville thought this people  special enough to travel here just to observe. He wrote "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power..." Ignoring these problems and the historical tendency of many nations to collapse from within, is not love.