There's an old old George Gershwin song originally sung by Fred Astaire in one of his movies....and later recorded by Frank Sinatra and Pat Boone and others. Some of the lyrics go like this...."The way you wear your hat....the way you sip your tea....the memory of all that....no no....they can't take that away from me."
Well they can't take away the memory of what happened at Valley Forge....or Gettysburg....or Guadalcanal.....or the I Drang Valley......or Fallujah....or anywhere that our military did what is has always done....that being upholding the honor of the flag they took with them. They try.....oh do they try. They attack our traditions.....our families.....our government....our constitution.....our educational system.....our political system....our courts....our free press....even our faith.....particularly our faith. Who are 'they?' They're communists.....some are just 'fellow travelers' with communists.....many are just dupes of the communists. They might have high cheekbones and bushy eyebrows or rounder faces or a Latin complexion....or they may look like the all American boy. They may be young or old....smart or stupid...male or female.
They made headway through espionage and playing upon the imperfections of a democratic capitalist society. Today they control the thinking processes of nearly half of America....they want that memory....but they can't have it. Memories are etched into the human mind.....that's why they attacked education so thoroughly....to keep our memories from the younger generations.
You have to hand it to them...their plans were nearly perfect......they know more about us than we know about ourselves.....but that's where their expertise ends.....they know about gods and religion and the power that it can have....but they know nothing about God.....and the omniscience and omnipotence that is His. They know that man has many weak areas....so they exploit those areas using miscreants and malcontents to do their pernicious bidding. They simply thought that if they take God out of the mind then the power will be gone.....which is true....but they were and are unaware that man does not seek God.....that God calls man.....and when He calls them particularly.....they come.
So they have an advantage over us right now.....and they may indeed win the day......but neither they nor us nor anyone nor any entity will determine what happens to us.....either good or bad. No coup of a sitting president or 'make America great again' Madison Avenue campaign can have any effect without God permitting it for His purposes. Polls mean absolutely nothing....impeachments mean nothing.....capitals (Jerusalem) mean nothing. Should God let us continue to dally with our own perceptions of autonomy then they will get that victory they've been working on for a century.....but should God's plan in these the most terrible of times be for us to return to Him.....then there is not a snowball's chance in Hades that all their well laid plans will not totally collapse let alone succeed.
Written into the Christian faith is a paradox. Yes we have to turn to Him once again....but we could never do that in our own strength. What we can do is humble ourselves before Him. Trust in Him and not ourselves. How do I know this? Memory. I remember what I have read in His Word to us. The many sacrifices made by our brave military...so very often the ultimate sacrifice....could not possibly be forgotten by us who have remained vigilant. They can kneel on the football field all they want....bang their drum all they want....and sing The Internationale all they want....we still have a functioning mind....memory....the words written on a page in sixty-six books....and God who is faithful despite our forgetting that from time to time.
Well they can't take away the memory of what happened at Valley Forge....or Gettysburg....or Guadalcanal.....or the I Drang Valley......or Fallujah....or anywhere that our military did what is has always done....that being upholding the honor of the flag they took with them. They try.....oh do they try. They attack our traditions.....our families.....our government....our constitution.....our educational system.....our political system....our courts....our free press....even our faith.....particularly our faith. Who are 'they?' They're communists.....some are just 'fellow travelers' with communists.....many are just dupes of the communists. They might have high cheekbones and bushy eyebrows or rounder faces or a Latin complexion....or they may look like the all American boy. They may be young or old....smart or stupid...male or female.
They made headway through espionage and playing upon the imperfections of a democratic capitalist society. Today they control the thinking processes of nearly half of America....they want that memory....but they can't have it. Memories are etched into the human mind.....that's why they attacked education so thoroughly....to keep our memories from the younger generations.
You have to hand it to them...their plans were nearly perfect......they know more about us than we know about ourselves.....but that's where their expertise ends.....they know about gods and religion and the power that it can have....but they know nothing about God.....and the omniscience and omnipotence that is His. They know that man has many weak areas....so they exploit those areas using miscreants and malcontents to do their pernicious bidding. They simply thought that if they take God out of the mind then the power will be gone.....which is true....but they were and are unaware that man does not seek God.....that God calls man.....and when He calls them particularly.....they come.
So they have an advantage over us right now.....and they may indeed win the day......but neither they nor us nor anyone nor any entity will determine what happens to us.....either good or bad. No coup of a sitting president or 'make America great again' Madison Avenue campaign can have any effect without God permitting it for His purposes. Polls mean absolutely nothing....impeachments mean nothing.....capitals (Jerusalem) mean nothing. Should God let us continue to dally with our own perceptions of autonomy then they will get that victory they've been working on for a century.....but should God's plan in these the most terrible of times be for us to return to Him.....then there is not a snowball's chance in Hades that all their well laid plans will not totally collapse let alone succeed.
Written into the Christian faith is a paradox. Yes we have to turn to Him once again....but we could never do that in our own strength. What we can do is humble ourselves before Him. Trust in Him and not ourselves. How do I know this? Memory. I remember what I have read in His Word to us. The many sacrifices made by our brave military...so very often the ultimate sacrifice....could not possibly be forgotten by us who have remained vigilant. They can kneel on the football field all they want....bang their drum all they want....and sing The Internationale all they want....we still have a functioning mind....memory....the words written on a page in sixty-six books....and God who is faithful despite our forgetting that from time to time.
