America the Free?
For all of the things they got
wrong, the founders of America got at least one primary concept right – an
underlying principle that eventually eroded the most glaring error of those
fathers: the allowance of slavery
That principle was this: Where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty
The only rights held by men
were those given by God, not the government. The purpose of the government was
to protect those rights, not to grant them. Those rights, given
by God, would allow free men to choose whether to do good or to do ill. The
laws of the land only existed to prevent people from depriving other people of
those God given rights:
Freedom of expression –
whether in support of God or against Him.
Freedom to worship God – or to
reject Him.
Freedom to associate with
anyone else – or to reject them.
Freedom to own property –
whether or not one was a godly steward with it.
Freedom to live and to work –
or to be lazy and die. The freedom to succeed, or to fail.
These freedoms, given by God,
as we all should know from our own experience, do not guarantee outcomes. An
evil person may prosper and a good person may suffer. Even so, it is the
freedom, itself, that is a gift and is a reflection of the Spirit of the Lord.
God is with Us.
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