We are ultimately only as strong as our personal character and the promises we keep to each other and God. I want to love my neighbor as myself because we are all made in the image of God, not because the Congress told me too. But if there is no God or unalienable rights, then who are we ultimately accountable to in American society?
If we merely operate from laws untethered from trust and and objective morality, then it seems that Solzhenitsyn was right, all things are permissible. That’s not how I want to live. We can do better, since our constitution (covenant) and laws really are as strong as the enduring values that underpin them.
It’s been said that freedom is voluntarily doing the unenforceable. I for one don’t want an overbearing government trying to enforce their version of fairness and equality when I can demonstrate it in my own life and in how I treat others. That will never work in the long run.
We as Christians must continue to take care of the sick, elderly, and poor. We must take seriously our duty to educate our children and future generations. We must always fight injustice for all and be an example of Christ in our love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. I’m starting with me.
We are ultimately only as strong as our personal character and our promises to one another and God. For the Jews at Sinai, the covenant was “with God”; for most of American history, the covenant was “under God”; but now it has become a constitution “without God.” We’ve got a lot of prayer and work to do!
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