Be Of Good Cheer

We are without a doubt in unsteady and turb-ulent times. Some of our highest leaders in government have forsaken the Constitu-tion and are deter-minedly leading us off the sure and certain course established for us so many years ago by our brave and clear-thinking forebears.

Many of us are hopeful that we can rally our fellow citizens and by doing so avert a calamity. We have arrived at a desperate hour in the history of our nation, an hour not unlike that faced by President Lincoln and our ancestors during the Civil War. We, too, are now engaged in a great conflict, testing whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure.

We must not assume that our cause is hopeless. Many things are in our favor. For one, we are fighting for what is right. Moreover, we are not alone. A great many Americans ardently believe as we do. And most important of all, we have our faith in God to sustain us.

Jesus said: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

We are in these treacherous times because dishonorable men currently rule the earth, believing mistakenly that it is theirs. One day, however, this grievous misconception will be cleared up.

In the mean time let us heed the words of Paul: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; we are persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed.”

On July 4, 1776, Americans assumed among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitled them. On that day we asserted that we were endowed by our Creator, not by a government, with certain unalienable rights.

Until our rightful King comes to reign over us, let us hold fast to those sacred God-given rights and relinquish them to no man.

Surely the gifts of God are more precious than the empty and capricious promises held out to us by our misdirected government.

“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
--Thomas Jefferson