AMERICA, DON'T ABANDON PRINCIPLES THAT MADE US GREAT

WE THE PEOPLE
AMERICA, DON'T ABANDON PRINCIPLES THAT MADE US GREAT
 Ben Kinchlow warns nation not to look for all answers in new leaders



I am a fairly well-read student of history and have also lived through a few things at this point in my life. I know a little bit about human nature and what man is capable of, for good or evil. Regardless of what circumstances I have ever found myself in, I have always had a positive outlook on life.

In conjunction with that, my perspective on America, because of all we have been afforded in this country, has been one of enormous enthusiasm and prayerful gratitude. We have so much for which to be grateful.

I am my brother's keeper.
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The concept of life and liberty has been ingrained since my childhood. Even during the times in my youth when I was in open conflict regarding the inequalities between white people and black people, my confidence was ever rooted in my belief that America was better than what I was then experiencing. I later came to believe that somehow we would eventually realize the potential that was there for every person in this country, regardless of origin or station, if we had the will to work out the existing conflicts.

Even though I have learned from personal experience how fortunate we are to be citizens of the United States of America, it is increasingly becoming a challenge to maintain that optimistic outlook for the future. There is so much we take for granted – and so much to lose. When will we realize that all we hold dear is slipping through our fingers?

Our Founders gifted us with all the tools necessary to build a prosperous, free and happy place to live, filled with limitless possibilities. They made it clear through their writings (and the creation of our Constitution) what it would take morally and spiritually to maintain the republic for which they fought and died.

As I struggle with an incessant insistence by the left to defy all the laws of God and man, I am aggrieved by the ignorance of many of my countrymen. Not all, of course, but far too many have fallen victim to the brainwashing and deceit propagated by an elitist media, left-leaning “educators” and many government officials at all levels.

It’s a sad misconception that we can look for turnover in leadership as an answer to our ills. Poor leadership is a very small part of our ongoing decline. Every nation in history has had deceitful leaders, whether they were kings or elected officials; there’s nothing new there.

In America, heretofore, we have enjoyed extraordinary liberties, prosperity and freedoms in “the pursuit of happiness.” Without question, with the possible exception of Israel, we remain the most heaven-blessed nation that ever existed, as long as we, like they, abide in His will.

However, more and more it becomes clear how much this very same prosperity and freedom has become license in place of liberty and is taken for granted, abused and prostituted. The inevitable results are apostasy – and the subsequent loss of God’s favor upon us. To think that we, as a people, can defy God, common sense and rational thinking, and yet maintain our status as a free people, borders on insanity.

Even the briefest review of history proves that any civilization that did not possess or hold to such principles that we have been given in the Bible – which constitute the basis of right and wrong, wisdom and understanding – is found on the junk pile of nations. The Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Chinese and even the British Empire (on which “the sun never set”) all bear witness to this truth.

America, arguably the greatest empire in existence today, is on the same rapidly declining path to self-destruction. The reason is simple: We are abandoning the principles that are the basis for our greatness, the Judeo-Christian precepts found in the one place that clearly articulates the principles that have led to that greatness – the Bible.

We press on with our lives as we will, all the while expecting that our actions, our choices, our opinions and even our votes will have no real bearing on our future, individually or collectively. It’s a dreadfully misguided viewpoint.

We cannot expect a new president or a new Congress to save us.

“We the people” are empowered by God, and our Constitution, to govern ourselves (and all that implies), and we own the responsibility to measure up to this expectation.

We need to return to common sense, restraint, self-respect, love for God, respect for the rule of law, moral decency – the very Judeo-Christian precepts that have birthed this great nation, and without which will lead to our downfall.

We are, however, abandoning these bedrock principles today with such rapidity that our youth have difficulty determining what is right or wrong. Let me again ask you: Absent the principles of the Bible, the basis for Western Civilization, how does one differentiate between truth or lies, moral or immoral, right and wrong?

Could it be, has it been, reduced to something as simple as “… all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes”? (Judges 21:25, NLT).