Saturday, July 3, 2021
THE DAY BEFORE!
Ps 33:12
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (Quote from the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)
Try to imagine what the world was like on July 3, 1776. The march of evil had so pressed the colonists that they felt the next steps might just be the abandonment of inalienable rights and self-evident truths. These were rights that government did not nor could not bestow and truths so glaringly true as to nearly blind the observer unless the eye of the heart be blind.
It had “become necessary” to dissolve the political bands which connected one people to another and to trust one’s fate to the God who had been so greatly offended. The causes which impelled them to separation were broad. “Prudence, indeed, dictated that the government long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.” One of those causes listed was this sentence: “He (the king) has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.” The politicizing of the courts could not be reversed by yet more politics.
The colonists had petitioned for redress, but those petitions were ignored and dismissed. The declaration concludes: “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” So, the Continental Congress would vote to separate from such a tyrant and to declare that they are free and independent states. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, they mutually pledged to each other their Lives, their Fortunes, and their sacred Honor.”
It is uncanny how similar our present situation compares to 1776. Now, to decide how to proceed we petition The Almighty for wisdom, courage, and relief!
Tough times lay ahead as we approach the end of the age. We wait for the return of Jesus – even so come quickly.
Oh, God! Give us wisdom to deal with the tyrant of our days and give us the courage and wisdom of our forefathers! Come quickly to help us, Oh God. AMEN
