Where Do You Stand?

Our current president is expanding both the reach and scope of the federal govern-ment at a pace never before witnessed in American his-tory. Some see nothing wrong with it; others are angry and alarmed.

I suppose which side of the fence one is on depends largely upon how much faith one is willing to place in gov-ernment. Our Founders were skeptical of government; therefore they placed their faith in the people. Obviously President Obama and his faction disagree with the Founders, and are frantically trying to reorder the system.

However, anyone with even a fair knowledge of history knows that most governments have been repressive and invasive. Ours, on the other hand, is a shining exception. Of course, in recent years high school graduates have been leaving school with only a fragmentary understanding of history so they are largely unaware of that. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions regarding which of the two struggling factions, liberals or conservatives, is benefiting most due to that regrettable oversight.

Because the Founders were placing their trust in the people, they elected to establish a small government with extremely limited powers. Those powers were so limited, in fact, that they were listed in writing to minimize any future confusion that might develop regarding the nature of the government they were creating.

The Founders also believed it was absolutely essential to divide rather than consolidate even those sparse powers the people were yielding to their government. Therefore they created within the federal government three distinct bodies or branches: a legislative, an executive and a judicial.

And then, as extra insurance, they added a Bill of Rights to the Constitution that laid out in plain English where the federal government stood in relation to the people and the sovereign states whose duly elected representatives had convened to form it.

Now with all that said, I have a favor to ask of you. Today I invite all who read this to carefully and objectively analyze what level of confidence he or she has in the government now operating in Washington--the officious and oversized government that is ruthlessly and arrogantly trampling down the constitutional restraints that were wisely put in place to keep it from getting out of hand. I ask you to do this so you may determine which side of the fence you are on. For it is a matter of grave importance that each citizen of the United States knows, without question, where he or she stands in this raging struggle for control over our lives and futures.

This certainly is no time to be forgetting that our Constitution was written expressly to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. I ask you: Where will our security be, where will our liberty be, once the powers of government no longer rest in our hands?

Hope

Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”

My friends, we have wandered into forbidden paths. We have placed ourselves in a vulnerable spot. And consequently we are in danger of being plucked!

During the last presidential campaign a lot of mileage was squeezed out of the word “hope.” Unfortunately the person doing the squeezing was using the word merely as a crass campaign tactic. He was employing it only for the sake of arousing pleasant emotions within the populace, pleasant emotions he believed would then be associated with him.

To some, however, the word hope is valued more highly than that and is held in much greater esteem. To them it is a word not to be carelessly tossed about, for hope is what people cling to when they have little else. No principled person would ever think of employing that term solely for the purpose of enticing discouraged and despondent men and women into believing that meaningful help was on the way when it wasn’t. But regrettably that is how low some politicians in this country will stoop in order to get themselves elected to high political office.

Of course, all who are acquainted with the Bible and believe its words know better than to place their full hope and trust in prevaricating politicians--or any mortal man, for that matter. The Bible warns: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” We also read: “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.”

I will pose a question. If the man who puts his trust in the Lord is blessed, is the man who puts his trust in man cursed? I don’t know, but considering what is currently going on around us, I think the possibility is well worth considering.

A Founding Father and our country’s second president John Adams wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Adams understood that only those who know right from wrong, those capable of properly regulating their own conduct and affairs, could be expected to live harmoniously, peacefully and successfully under a national government as small and limited as the one outlined in our constitution. Immoral men, he knew, would require a stricter and more comprehensive form of government, a government not unlike the Frankenstein that has been under construction for over 70 years in this country and is now nearing completion.

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

So long as we are in this world, complete and permanent happiness will elude us. Evil-minded men, or even well-intentioned men, may from time to time step forward offering alluring ideas and promises, but we always will find those men, whatever their inner motives, to be woefully ill equipped to transform our world into anything remotely resembling a Garden of Eden.

Our founders gave us, as Adams pointed out, a constitution possessing just enough power to adequately govern moral and religious men and women. Nevertheless the government it underpins worked marvelously well for a great many years and spawned a previously unheard of level of security and prosperity for the vast majority of our nation’s citizens. Yet despite this huge body of historical evidence, there are many, including our current president, who now see our constitution and government as “inadequate.” But the question is: Does the inadequacy lie in the constitution and government or in us?

I believe a close inspection of ourselves and our nation’s leaders will confirm that it lies in us. A large and ever-increasing number of us lack the moral and ethical qualities our ancestors possessed in abundance. Americans gradually have changed over the years. And in so doing we have rendered ourselves unfit to live under that great banner of liberty written by our founding fathers. It is time to humble ourselves and admit that we have permitted our political leaders to transform themselves into gods, false gods to whom we foolishly have acquiesced and followed deep into the wilderness.

But be of good cheer! There still is before us one sure way out. If we yearn to one day possess real security and genuine happiness, we need only to shut our ears to those who are garrulously foisting upon us a debased hope, a hope that is nothing more than a crude forgery of the real thing, and begin listening once again to the voice of He who has overcome the world, He who continues patiently to offer us hope that is both untarnished and authentic.

And if we will listen to His message and try diligently to obey, then whatever hardships may befall us, we will, like the Christians of old, be able to proclaim with confidence: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”

Without question and without fail there will be tribulation in this world--some natural and some man-made. But we may rest assured that we always will be much better prepared to cope with and endure those times of distress and uncerainty if our hope for a brighter future is rooted not in politicians and government but in God.

It Is Time To Take The Bushel Off Your Candle

Wouldn’t you think news stories should be prioritized and reported on the basis of how vital and urgent the information is to the public? For example, if a category-5 hurricane was about to strike a major U.S. city, would it be appropriate to forego the reporting of that story in favor of reporting on the latest fashion designs coming out of Paris?

I don’t think so.

So why is it that with our entire nation teetering precariously on the very brink of a catastrophic political and economic breakdown all the major network news organizations are bypassing the story?

If you are a fisherman, aren’t you trying to catch the biggest fish in the sea? If you are an investor, aren’t you always looking for the investment opportunity of a life-time? So why aren’t our top network news reporters going after the most important, crucial and newsworthy story of the century--the impending sociopolitical upheaval that is about to overtake the United States if its citizens don’t awaken and get their house in order?

Isn’t this behavior oddly inconsistent with the objectives of their profession? We assume, after all, that these wide-gauge gossips are entitled to their exorbitant salaries and superstar status because they are the best darn news gatherers and reporters in the business. Yet they are missing the elephant-in-the-living-room story. So what gives?

What gives is that virtually all of our mainstream news media luminaries are little more than hired hands. They are mere pawns who do nothing more nor less than what they are told to do. They aren’t independent thinkers, at all; they’re propagandists who mindlessly carry out the will of others in exchange for a little prestige and a high salary. The only difference between them and Hitler’s Joseph Goebbels is their wardrobe. They don’t wear brown uniforms at One World Order rallies. Not yet, at least.

What we must come to understand, if we are to survive as a free people, is that our current mainstream news media functions to conceal information, not reveal it. When news come into a network news bureau, a good deal of it, that which has the greatest potential for enlightening the public, is discarded immediately. The small portion that remains is then substantially modified and smartly packaged before it is released for public consumption.

If you are surprised by that, you shouldn’t be. After all, when a clandestine syndicate of unprincipled men and women are attempting to take over the world, it goes without saying that they must retain a corps of professional and polished liars to keep their secrets and distract the intended victims.

So what is my message for today? Simply this: It is time to take the bushel off your candle. Massive and horrendous crimes are unfolding before our very eyes. And honorable men and woman do not stand by with their hands in their pockets while masked criminals, working under a cloak of darkness, commit with impunity outrageous and despicable acts. Surely we Americans don’t want to be like the “good” Germans who shut their eyes to the atrocities of Nazism.

One of the simplest and most effectual ways ordinary citizens can thwart these unscrupulous vermin and eventually bring them to justice is to start shedding some much needed light into areas where presently there is only darkness. With things as they are now in this country, I think a great many people are becoming more and more willing to accept the idea that there are outright traitors operating as an organized body in the highest levels and offices of our government as well as within the nation’s news media.

When I was a kid, I occasionally heard adults conjecturing about such things, but I considered the possibilities to be both remote and minimal. However, as I’ve grown and matured, and witnessed first-hand many strange and questionable developments in the way our government is run, I’ve come to believe that their nagging doubts and fears were fully justified--mainly because this admittedly incredible theory of things provides the only reasonable explanation for why our nation’s health and vitality has deteriorated so rapidly and alarmingly over the past several decades.

At the end of World War II America was without question the most powerful nation on earth. But now, just 65 years later, our once vibrant and enviable national economy is in shambles and we are smothering in debt. Are we expected to believe that this is just a coincidence? Are we expected to believe that this is merely the result of ignorance and gross incompetence on the part of our national leaders?

No my friends, that’s what the news media wants us to believe. But in actuality the many problems, fears and uncertainties we currently are facing in this country are the direct result of a carefully developed and executed plot to bring America to her knees. And we won’t get this mess cleaned up, or things straightened out, until a sufficient number of us recognize what is truly going on around us.

So if you want your children and grandchildren to live in a special land where they can achieve their highest hopes and ambitions, please get out there and start casting some light into the shadowy recesses where these treacherous rats live and breed. Because it is quite obvious that the current superstars of American journalism are determined to keep this fiendish plot enshrouded in impenetrable darkness.