Are We Safe In the Arms of the Omnipresent State?

One of Rome’s greatest orators, the philosopher, lawyer and unabashed ‘constitutionalist’ Marcus Tullius Cicero {106-43 BC} once said: “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.  But it cannot survive treason from within.  An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.  But the traitor moves amongst those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.  For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments [Liberal or Conservative, Socialist or Capitalist], he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men [Personal enrichment, self-centredness, and self-preservation at all costs.].  He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.  A murderer is less to fear.  The traitor is the plague.”  {Bracketed commentary mine}.

Are we safer than we were fifteen years ago?  Are we stronger than we were fifteen years ago?  Are we better off than we were a decade and a half back?  Or just more easily herded into the stifling pens of un-liberty, the cramped confining spaces of ‘government knows what’s best’?  Whoever was behind the vicious attacks upon our sovereignty and the subsequent attacks upon our liberties knew full well that if enough hysteria could be stirred up in a nation the size of the US, with its population and its vast wealth, if you could strike enough fear in the hearts of its people, we would accept anything.  Any curtailing of our liberties in the name of ‘safety,’ any expenditure of national treasure in the name of ‘security.’  And we have... we have.

We stand now on the very edge, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.  In more ways than one.  We’re not only financially bankrupt as a nation and deeply indebted to Communist China and globalist bankers, but spiritually, ethically, emotionally and relationally.  We have lost our sense of faithfulness and fidelity to Causes true and right; we have lost our identity as a People of honor, of integrity, of courage and conviction.  We as the Body of Christ have lost a firm grasp on what it means “love the Lord” with all we are and “one another” as He loves us.  We’re wandering in a wilderness ...with no exit in sight.

This coming election is the Day of Decision for the United States of America.  We stand upon the precipice, balancing precariously on the balls of our feet.  We can return to our foundation of Freedom and Faith in the God of all Grace, or we can plunge ourselves into an abyss from which there will be no return.  This is our moment in His-Story, the moment when we decide our destiny.  God has put it firmly in our hands, asking as He has been for the past half-century, “Which Path will you choose?  Freedom and Life... or Destruction and Death?”  Our situation is just this serious, and just this simple.

While we watch and witness, hearing with alarm the death throes of a dying nation, those last gasps of the American Empire, my one prayer for this November is: “God, give us what we need, and not what we deserve.  Have mercy on us, Lord.  And spark the fires of service and sacrifice within us so they burn like a Beacon of Hope to a world bound in darkness and death.  Do not cast us from Thy sight, Abba, or turn Thy back upon us.  Refresh our spirits, renew our strength, and lead us on to glory and greatness.  For Your Name’s sake.  Amen!”  Will you pray this with me, as we lay down our lives at the feet of our King?

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