Former Senator from Virginia Jim Webb announced today that he is withdrawing from the Democrat primaries as a candidate for president. I'd like to weigh in on this but first, as I often do before commenting on politics, I want to give these thoughts. The America of almost 240 years, and much longer if you go back to the first colonies, is gone....and there is no bringing it back. It's people have changed. Our military members and remnants of a few professions are the only vestiges of what was known as American Exceptionalism. Its Christian church on the whole, but certainly not totally, is weak and has lost confidence...as Paul proclaimed "through Christ toward God," and fails to warn its sheep for fear of being seen as too much of a peculiar people.
America's one major political party is no more than a Marxist cabal while the second major party considers a bull market on Wall Street more valuable than our Constitution, and cheap labor more important than the Bible. Our only hope at this time, should Jesus tarry in His return in judgement on the entire world, is for mercy in the struggles ahead and a healing of our minds before our divisions, our hearts before our economy and our souls before even our churches.
Politics is like snow covered streets throughout the winter, they have to be plowed if the city is to function. No President or Congress or Supreme Court can undo what has been done even if they sincerely wanted to, providing that they even fully understood the severity of our collapse as a nation, which they don't. The streets have to be plowed but all that does is open up an avenue. It doesn't tell you where you have to go or what you have to do.
I hope that Jim Webb continues his campaign as an independent which he is considering and I'll use these few paragraphs taken from older posts in 2011 and 2012 to explain my position, for I believe that he would fill that bill described:
"I Do Solemnly Swear...."
The Declaration of Independence ends with these words, "And for the support of the Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Have we strayed as a nation from valuing our honor above our lifestyles, our personal security and even our futures? I do not doubt that these fifty-six men meant what they signed onto in this document.
Christianity itself is grounded on an oath...an oath taken by God alone. He led men of Old Testament times to know the importance of a covenant in order to covenant with them. Today we often witness the repercussions of a broken oath in a courtroom or before Congress, the result being an indictment of perjury, but even here do we look beyond the legal ramifications to what the signers of the Declaration of Independence referred to as... sacred honor?
God knows us more than we know ourselves. Therein is the key. To the politician, to the lawyer, to the juror or witness....whether it be an oath or just a statement to another person, we should know that God records our words. Our elected members of Congress take this oath..."I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..." Herein would be but one step in America's recovery, that our elected and appointed leaders take that oath very seriously, and also in the vein that it was meant, for how can one consider the Constitution to be a 'living document' where its meaning would be subject to change through time and personal preferences, and then take that oath?
America's one major political party is no more than a Marxist cabal while the second major party considers a bull market on Wall Street more valuable than our Constitution, and cheap labor more important than the Bible. Our only hope at this time, should Jesus tarry in His return in judgement on the entire world, is for mercy in the struggles ahead and a healing of our minds before our divisions, our hearts before our economy and our souls before even our churches.
Politics is like snow covered streets throughout the winter, they have to be plowed if the city is to function. No President or Congress or Supreme Court can undo what has been done even if they sincerely wanted to, providing that they even fully understood the severity of our collapse as a nation, which they don't. The streets have to be plowed but all that does is open up an avenue. It doesn't tell you where you have to go or what you have to do.
I hope that Jim Webb continues his campaign as an independent which he is considering and I'll use these few paragraphs taken from older posts in 2011 and 2012 to explain my position, for I believe that he would fill that bill described:
"I Do Solemnly Swear...."
The Declaration of Independence ends with these words, "And for the support of the Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Have we strayed as a nation from valuing our honor above our lifestyles, our personal security and even our futures? I do not doubt that these fifty-six men meant what they signed onto in this document.
Christianity itself is grounded on an oath...an oath taken by God alone. He led men of Old Testament times to know the importance of a covenant in order to covenant with them. Today we often witness the repercussions of a broken oath in a courtroom or before Congress, the result being an indictment of perjury, but even here do we look beyond the legal ramifications to what the signers of the Declaration of Independence referred to as... sacred honor?
God knows us more than we know ourselves. Therein is the key. To the politician, to the lawyer, to the juror or witness....whether it be an oath or just a statement to another person, we should know that God records our words. Our elected members of Congress take this oath..."I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..." Herein would be but one step in America's recovery, that our elected and appointed leaders take that oath very seriously, and also in the vein that it was meant, for how can one consider the Constitution to be a 'living document' where its meaning would be subject to change through time and personal preferences, and then take that oath?
