Friday.....America.....Coupons

While sitting here, logging onto my blog and listening to the radio, a commercial voice said "a coupon is only good if you you use it.? I didn't catch the rest for I found myself contemplating that statement. It's certainly a true but it doesn't address the whole issue. I could hold in my hand a coupon for a free oil change for a Lexus. My choice is taken out of the equation for I don't own a Lexus, nor do I know anyone who does. The statement is still technically true but it is meant to encourage use, or action so the verity of it, in this case, depends on the coupon, not me. Suppose the coupon I had was for 100 free cable television stations? That's about 90 more than I need or want. In fact 100 cable channels would be detrimental to me, and I believe to anyone else. I might prefer to say "the coupon is bad only if I use it" but the statement obviously is referring to utility not advantage. Suppose the coupon is for ability. We've all been given abilities of some kind. Some have many abilities. Many have the same ability but to varying degrees. For instance, Thomas Sowell and I have both been given a level of intelligence. His ability here is enormously greater than mine, but we both use them, presumably to the best of our...another ability....determination. (For those not familiar with Mr. Sowell you can go to your local bookstore and pick up anything he has written and experience his abilities) What are your abilities in areas that would be beneficial to the nation that you live in, are a citizen of, and have a debt of responsibility to? I remember a comic in a Christian magazine many, many years ago where a man is kneeling by his bed, hands folded in prayer and a very satisfied look on his face as he offers up his thanksgiving with Thank you God, for not calling me to be a missionary! The purpose of this blog has always been to encourage people to look into two things that greatly effect their lives. The first of two is the security and the future of the nation we live in, we respect-even love and which will determine our children's future. Consider the events of this past ten days alone. Had an unidentified missile been launched so close to our shores in the past, as apparently happened off of Los Angeles, it would have been a development as major as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Russia has been brought into the missile defense of NATO. A terrorist played our legal system and political correct society to the advantage of all those who wish us harm. The actions of the TSA is much more than inconvenience or embarrassment. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution requires probable cause in searches yet the most improbable are not only searched but violated to insure that the most probable are not offended. It is more than odd that the rights of terrorists are strenuously guarded and the rights of those the Constitution is meant to protect are abused. George Soros, who has a history of meddling in the affairs of governments made this statement "We have just lost this election...and if this president can't do what we need, it's time to start looking somewhere else." This implies that they had indeed looked to the current adminstration for what they needed, and we know the influence Soros had here, but the results were thwarted. This is in the past ten days alone! Your nation is in extreme need right now of vigilance, common sense and determination from its citizens. You most certainly can avoid it but you cannot avoid the consequences. The second purpose of this blog but infinitely more important is to encourage you to consider this, that the common, accepted Christianity of today, it's doctrines and salvation, may not be correct. You may live in a church age that is so weak that when truths arise they are naturally dismissed as undesirable. One must read to resolve this. When Benjamin Franklin made his famous statement about the need for an informed citizenry he was speaking about the need for libraries, for books and literature. My hope for this blog has been that people would encounter it in passing and go to the books.