American Prosperity
American prosperity. For over two centuries it has been widely assumed that prosperity is the enduring birthright of a nation that touts herself as, “One Nation Under God.” In fact, our great Founding Father Thomas Jefferson saw the connection between God and freedom, or God and prosperity. His views on the matter remain permanently set in stone on the northeast interior wall of the monument bearing his name. The last line on that wall comes from a letter Jefferson wrote to George Washington, January 4, 1786.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Not without sufficient irony, secular-progressive humanists in our country perpetually present the myth that Thomas Jefferson is the main figure among the Founders pushing for a completely secular state. They use as a red herring words, taken out of context from another letter Jefferson wrote. Those words are: "the separation of church and state." Only in a country blinded by the false hope of perpetual prosperity as a birthright could be so blind as not to see the complete disconnect between Thomas Jefferson’s words etched in stone and the wholesale misuse of his words for the “separation of church and state.” The facts are incontrovertible; yet, the lie remains and continues to grow. When God is separated from government and every vestige of His Providence scrubbed from public discourse in the marketplace, prosperity is no longer a birthright but it is indeed a myth. It is a dangerous myth.
“Can the liberties [prosperity included] of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift ofGod?” That is a rhetorical question requiring no answer. But, there is an answer. The answer is founded upon the very words of God, Himself. God establishes an absolute hard-wired connection between piety and prosperity, between truth and success. God says,
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful
(Joshua 1:8-9).
God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Not without sufficient irony, secular-progressive humanists in our country perpetually present the myth that Thomas Jefferson is the main figure among the Founders pushing for a completely secular state. They use as a red herring words, taken out of context from another letter Jefferson wrote. Those words are: "the separation of church and state." Only in a country blinded by the false hope of perpetual prosperity as a birthright could be so blind as not to see the complete disconnect between Thomas Jefferson’s words etched in stone and the wholesale misuse of his words for the “separation of church and state.” The facts are incontrovertible; yet, the lie remains and continues to grow. When God is separated from government and every vestige of His Providence scrubbed from public discourse in the marketplace, prosperity is no longer a birthright but it is indeed a myth. It is a dangerous myth.
“Can the liberties [prosperity included] of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift ofGod?” That is a rhetorical question requiring no answer. But, there is an answer. The answer is founded upon the very words of God, Himself. God establishes an absolute hard-wired connection between piety and prosperity, between truth and success. God says,
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful
(Joshua 1:8-9).
God established the basis for national success and prosperity. History proves by a preponderance of evidence that atheism and agnosticism, pragmatism or scientism, nor any “ism” can sustain liberty and prosperity for a nation. Only a devotion to the One True God guarantees such.
Our national distrust and disloyalty to the God “who gives us liberty,” offers no true hope of any long term prosperity as a nation, regardless of the present national optimism at the changing of the guard.
America’s greatest enemy is pride. America’s greatest hope is revival.
posted by Jack @ 1:50 PM
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