Chris Cuomo, television journalist and son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, was today (Feb. 2015) in what was described as a "heated conversation" with Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Here is a portion of that as reported by CNS News: "Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that! They come from man.....That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise." The CNS News article went on to quote the Declaration Of Independence in "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
Our Only Purpose.......April, 2012
Our Only Purpose.......April, 2012
This blog has had a few streams of thought throughout it. Sometimes I repeat a blog and at other times I just try to express my thoughts in a different way, with different words. I can't expect visitors to read through as if this were a book but I want to keep certain themes fresh in people's minds. So the following thoughts are not new. I often try to appeal to the reader's love for their children. It's too easy for us to be willing to accept the consequences in our own life for rejecting God, or in just avoiding Him, but we are also making decisions for those who we love more than our own lives.
America is in the process of rejecting God! Constitutionally that is OK for we have that right. The same Constitution that was constructed by men who acknowledged God's hand upon their endeavors gives the right to reject that hand. The framers knew that man himself was weak, prone to error and subject to the lure of greed, corruption and power. They knew this not only from observing others but from observing themselves and they knew this first from reading the Bible. They knew that ministers were subject to the same temptations. Nearing the end of the 18th century, George Washington feared that we were falling away from dependence upon God. Thomas Jefferson, for his part, knew that there would be difficult times ahead where some would try to circumvent our Constitution. God indeed had a plan for our country but it was, and is, not quite the same plan often mentioned today in evangelical circles. Yes, He would bless and protect us but not for our own sake and not for our own glory. Rather we were that nation, at that time in the history of the world that would accomplish His purpose through our existence. If we are now done with Him then the more glaring evidence would point to His being done with us! We are no more important than that and all the patriotic expressions, of which I also so often have relied upon, will come to nothing.
When one is involved in a project and that project suddenly becomes an exercise in chaos, does not one usually stop to reaffirm the original goal? Our goal in the United States of America can be found in the Preamble to our Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution, for the United States of America. Please notice how some of these words were capitalized in the original document, this apparently to emphasize their importance. The framers looked to secure the Blessings of Liberty.....even to their Posterity!
Choose to stand in front of Almighty God with your pride intact if you want, but won't you, for your children's sake, at least allow them the same blessings our Founding Fathers recognized, our great-grandparents started their lives here with and our parents used to build a secure future? And to the Christian.....the critics of Jesus Christ and His church are many. Does that surprise anyone? Have we not been forewarned? There are Christians reading this blog who suffer persecution daily. Should we not daily pray for them, humble ourselves and express thanksgiving to God by valuing these freedoms, using them for His glory, and seeking to secure them for our children?
America is in the process of rejecting God! Constitutionally that is OK for we have that right. The same Constitution that was constructed by men who acknowledged God's hand upon their endeavors gives the right to reject that hand. The framers knew that man himself was weak, prone to error and subject to the lure of greed, corruption and power. They knew this not only from observing others but from observing themselves and they knew this first from reading the Bible. They knew that ministers were subject to the same temptations. Nearing the end of the 18th century, George Washington feared that we were falling away from dependence upon God. Thomas Jefferson, for his part, knew that there would be difficult times ahead where some would try to circumvent our Constitution. God indeed had a plan for our country but it was, and is, not quite the same plan often mentioned today in evangelical circles. Yes, He would bless and protect us but not for our own sake and not for our own glory. Rather we were that nation, at that time in the history of the world that would accomplish His purpose through our existence. If we are now done with Him then the more glaring evidence would point to His being done with us! We are no more important than that and all the patriotic expressions, of which I also so often have relied upon, will come to nothing.
When one is involved in a project and that project suddenly becomes an exercise in chaos, does not one usually stop to reaffirm the original goal? Our goal in the United States of America can be found in the Preamble to our Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution, for the United States of America. Please notice how some of these words were capitalized in the original document, this apparently to emphasize their importance. The framers looked to secure the Blessings of Liberty.....even to their Posterity!
Choose to stand in front of Almighty God with your pride intact if you want, but won't you, for your children's sake, at least allow them the same blessings our Founding Fathers recognized, our great-grandparents started their lives here with and our parents used to build a secure future? And to the Christian.....the critics of Jesus Christ and His church are many. Does that surprise anyone? Have we not been forewarned? There are Christians reading this blog who suffer persecution daily. Should we not daily pray for them, humble ourselves and express thanksgiving to God by valuing these freedoms, using them for His glory, and seeking to secure them for our children?
