The “American Way of Life” is Dying!
The “American way of life” is dying!
Why do I say that? Think about it for a minute. The American way of life used to be about pride, dignity, truth, love, liberty and the presence of God in our homes and our government. Now it is about “me”, ”I” and “Mine”. We are very quickly becoming an individualized society of loners competing against everyone else in our country. Self has overridden the once “United” states that we live in. The United States of America is not the country we live in today. We now live in the “Individual States of America”. This country is coming apart at the seams.
We used to know our neighbors and care for them. Now we wave to them as we come and go and think to ourselves that we are better than one another. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is no longer what it was intended to be in our foundng fathers’ day. They invisioned a land where a man could be free to live and love as he saw fit for his life and his family while following the principles of the Bible. Although this freedom they desired still exists it is not built on the foundation they laid for that purpose. God was intended to be the foundation of our once great nation. He was intended to be the guiding light of our once great nation. We are no longer that great nation because what made us great has been pushed to the back of the scene by “individual” wants and desires. We used to be “United” by God and the fundamental laws of the Bible, the Word of God, and now we are seperated by those individual differences in us that once made us strong.
When the founding fathers wrote of seperation of church and state they did not mean that they should be seperate from one another but rather that one should not govern the other. Early laws, bills, personal letters and journal entries illustrate this clearly. They intended for God to be the supreme authority in this country and for our laws, actions and general social state to reflect this principle to the world. We are supposed to be “one nation under God”! Where is God in America today? The “normal” American of one hundred years ago was a law abiding, God fearing person. Now those same people are the exception to the rule. Today it is all about me. What’s in it for me? What do I get from my country? Show me the money!
Below is a portion of a famous speech by President John F. Kennedy :
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank from this responsibility – I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”
Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own! Amen! Where is the America I love…. where is the great nation that was founded more than two hundred thirty years ago? Today we are the most powerful nation on earth. But the power we have today is not the power that we were founded upon. The power of God is leaving this great nation and when it has faded completely…. then we are lost! Without God at the center of this great nation then we are just another “world” power. This world is lost and dying and we the American people are dying with it. Our way of life is dying with it. We have but one hope for survival! The power of God, in our hearts, in our homes, in our government and in our schools…this is the only way the “American way of life” can prevail. Because without God it is just a way of life and nothing more.
Praise God, praise His Son Jesus Christ and praise the Holy Spirit! Without these three as our foundation for this great nation then it is only a matter of time before we are swallowed by the sands of time! God forbid that should ever happen to my beautiful country!
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