To Form a More Perfect Union

Tuesday:

I wrote this last year. My hope was that by now things would be better in our nation by now. Sadly not so. If you don't want to read this discouraging look at the state of our country, just skip this. More hope is to come in the following blogs and hopefully more hope to come in 2022. 

Will we as a nation continue to aspire to the quest for A More Perfect Union now? Or let our Constitutional Republic devolve into a totalitarian communist government? It is happening right now, unless we can stop it.

Over the last 100 years thanks to Karl Marx’s false utopia, various nations have fallen into forced government control. It has brought the massacre of millions of people, poverty and untold misery to the populations of these countries. Their liberty was forbidden, horrible violence to force top down control over everything. They set up re-education camps to control the thoughts those who do not believe in their propaganda. This is not the way to peace on earth. We are at the cusp of certain disaster if we cannot turn this around.

 

To find some peace on earth, leaders in our country and across the world, need to come to Christ, to seek His heart to understand the principles of fairness and justice for His created people. From these principles emerge a much greater potential for freedom and peace. Peace through equal fairness and justice. 

 

To Form a More Perfect Union

 

In 1787, a group of devoted men gathered together to form a new government. They were brilliant and highly educated. With much discussion and proposing of ideas and principles on which to draft The Constitution of the United States, these men composed the greatest document for human liberty and peace known to man. In this little book, roughly 4" x 6" and no more than 1/4 of an inch thick lies our system of government and rights as citizens for our entire nation. And now, more than 200 years later our courts continue rely on this document for bringing justice to a nation. It begins with: 

"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America."

This document did not come about easily. Before this Constitution was written there was a long and bloody Revolutionary War to separate our people from Britain. The American colonists had suffered greatly under British control and tyranny. It came to a crescendo on July 4, 1776. This was the day that The Declaration of Independence was signed.

 

Thomas Jefferson wrote, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,.. evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right and duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government." 

As the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence; English battle ships were just off the coast as the signers pledged "their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor."

Most of us as Americans hold to and treasure these documents as our guarantee of our liberty, religious and civil rights. Now there are violent hateful, extremist forces as well as the silent ones in support of those who are determined to abolish these documents of liberty and "burn the country down." They are tearing down and destroying the statues of the very men who established liberty for all.  In this document the Founders assert,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,

 that all men are created equal,

that they are endowed by their Creator

with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty

 and the pursuit of Happiness."

 

They agreed upon the obvious truth that every human being is created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights... rights that are "unable to be removed" and "cannot be transferred" to anyone else because these rights come directly from God. To live in peace, we must see our fellow citizens as equal creations of God and honor their rights.

 

However, what do we do when they hate us and continue to commit crimes? What do we do when our closely held values and beliefs are repugnant to them? What do we do when we are so opposite in our beliefs and their beliefs, that no compromise or agreement of any kind that can happen? In the words of Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount,

 

"Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes His sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust." Matt 5:44,45

 

Yikes, that is not easy! However, those words are said by the Prince of Peace, our Prince of Peace. Lord, show me how to pray for our enemies with your great love. In that, we come to You Lord and pray for a break though for our nation that will bring unity, liberty, fairness and justice. In doing that we can aspire to peace.