America

“The land of the Free and the home of the brave”, or so we would lead ourselves to think. What does the word free really mean? To most dictionaries they list the word free as”Independent, liberated, emancipated, sovereign”. The word free or freedom has never been found however to infer that it gives to us a license to offend other people’s freedom. No matterhow one chooses to define this word freedom still there is no definition, no description that begins to suggest that being free connotes the ability of anyone treading on the rightsof others. Yet it would seem that we allowed this ‘definition’ to be, not only introduced into American society, but treated as the norm.

Traveling back in time a little is important. The year1774, the place Philadelphia. The meeting was the Continentalcongress. These men gathered that fateful day to develop andenact a plan to separate the strong tyrannous ties of KingGeorge. When the First Continental Congress came together in1774 they in fact were jeopardizing their lives and their rightsso that we would have the rights we now enjoy. For to go againstKing George, then King of England, was at the least certain deathnot to mention endangering their families. To those foundingfathers, it meant something to be called an American. Moreover,it meant something to be called a Christian. For to be aChristian was to be American and vice versa. The Pilgrims didnot brave the sailing across the sea from England to have thefreedom to be atheist or worse. No! They came across the seato have the freedom of worship to the Lord, not from it! Neverthe less, tragically that has become the trend in this countrythat God has so richly blessed.

Why is it that we are too busy in our daily lives andactivities to stop and ask ourselves where would we be withoutGod? Or maybe it is not a question of being too busy, insteadwe are afraid of the question. How far would this country havegone without God? Do we think for one minute that we are, atthe least, equal with God? May God forgive us if we do. Mayhapit is rather a feeling of being able to play God into our cornerwhen doing so is benecificial to us. We have become too busyto let God in our lives in the name of progress. This isdangerous not just on a personal level but for our country aswell. Distance traveled without God would have been ever soslight. Now before that point is ridiculed, remember how manyyears the children of Israel wandered in the dessert becauseof their insisting on counting God out of the problem, it wasforty years. Forty years the children of Israel wandered thebarren wasteland, because they could not see the Lord God inthe situation. It would be rather interesting to see how ThomasJefferson, George Washington or even Benjamin Franklin wouldreact to this America now.