It's Not The System That's Broken...

Our country didn't amass it's greatness by chance. No, it didn't always rape and pillage other less developed countries for their resources either. We used to actually encourage free democratic society where there wasn't any, and help it where it was weak.  Our system of government as aptly described in detail in our Constitution, works supremely as evidenced by the great success a glance back at history will clearly reflect.

So what has changed that makes some young people (and some older that should know better) ready to give up their birthrights and follow two-bit socialist snake oil salesmen? Is it their rhetoric of socking it to the rich, and empowering government even more and thereby promising prosperity for the middle class? Common sense and history should send the red flags a flying. Especially with the real-time demonstration we have of how corrupt, and closely connected government is to big business these days.

The true nature of our problem is moral decline in a country that used to hold to a moral and ethical standard that was modeled by our Creator, which is at the very heart of our nation's founding. The level of virtue was first kept at a personal level, which bled over to corporate and government bodies.  Almost since it's inception there have been forces at work trying to use our legal system to evict God from the United States. In my lifetime it has been evidenced at an accelerated rate since the early 1960's.

In the absence of personal virtue, and the ensuing amoral atmosphere, people are inclined to try to legislate behavior at every turn to compensate for the lack of a personal moral compass. They believe a law for everything is the answer. The trouble is with a morally bankrupt government, the law enforcement is subject to the benefit of the enforcer, not the people demanding the law.

The abandoning of morality and a declining society is a historically repeated and identifiable cycle shown by the demise of the Greeks, Romans, and even more recently, Soviet Russia, to name a few. With the absence of a moral foundation, such as Biblical Christianity, there is no suitable source from which to draw virtuous behavior. The result of a moral vacuum is the need for more and more laws to replace lost personal virtue, and a society that searches for a new system of rule that "works" which historically ends in a worse system, loss of freedom, and societal decline to the point the country, or people are absorbed or taken over by a more powerful one, purely because the root problem was never dealt with.

I digress, the very laws and ideologies that we chase after to put in place are supposed to be maintained and implemented by the same corrupt government that has empowered corporate injustices in the first place. Politicians these days are primarily engaged in staying elected, and self aggrandizement. To give them more power, is not the correct remedy to our predicament. Making them as insignificant as possible is. But doing so would be all for naught if we as a people don't have a moral and virtuous personal life. Evicting our Creator from a country that was founded for His sake and His principles will only serve to move us in a direction of decline, no matter what we may try.

The answer: Immersing yourself in His Word, stand strong and boldly for His principles, always in love and humility, and not wavering. The most important, is having and maintaining a personal relationship with our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and praying to Him daily for our falling nation. If the majority of people would do that, we could see revival like in the days of Nineveh.  If only a minority participate, we must still stay vigilant, and take as many with us to an eternity with God as possible.