In days gone by
January 31st, 2010
Traveling through a desert a man saw a woman standing all alone with eyes bent to the ground.
“Who are you?” he asked.
“I am truth,” she answered.
“And why have you left the city to live in the desert?”
“Because things have changed, she answered. “In days gone by, lying was confined to a few. But now days whenever you converse with people, you find that they are all liars.”
Human life is vile and a wretched thing, when falsehood is honored above truth. (source:Fables of Aesop-Penguin Classics-”A City of Lies”)
But this truth is everlasting. “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good,” Proverbs 15:3. And, “Whoso rewards evil for good shall not depart from his house,” Proverbs 17:13. Meaning that ultimately such behaviors renders individuals and nation states pursuits to the fires of the garbage furnace. Making certain that falsehoods are a sure path to destruction, for individuals and nation states. It’s impossible for the goodness of God to dwell in the midst of such wretchedness. Therefore; depriving a people, and their nation the extended hand of God in the arena of prosperity.
America is becoming a nation of falsehoods and with that being the case her avenues of prosperity are vanishing. That at least is not new, as many can attest with dwindling personal prosperity. As can the nation, as the government on Thursday, 28 January 2010 voted to raise our national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. That’s about $45,000 of debt for every American man, woman and child. Signaling an ineptness to basic economics that prosperity can’t come from what one does not own. Thomas Jefferson put it this way, “The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling the futurity on a large scale.”
Here is what is at the core of individual and national falsehoods. It’s the abandonment of our national dependence upon our Judea-Christian heritage.
For it is a scriptural declaration that when falsehoods are abandoned for truth this is the result. And he (individuals/nations) shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth fruit in its season, its leaf shall not whiter; and whatsoever is done shall prosper,” Psalms 1:3.
It means returning to our Judea-Christian heritage which made America what it was in days gone by.
It’s impossible to separate a people from their nation because the people are the nation. Which is also so, for the church because the people are the church. And the church of all institutions needs to reject a galaxy of falsehoods, for biblical truths. If we as individuals, and a nation are to enjoy the leaf prosperity that does not whither. That sees the miraculous wheel of God turning out goods and services to the peoples delight and the nations glory. That is the only permanent way for avoiding future and getting out of this recession. In other words, “America the Beautiful.” It results with the people and the nation experiencing this, “The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want,” Psalms 23:1.
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