All the evils of the world have been laid at the feet of God. He expected it. (Isaiah 53:5)
Is it not ironic, however, even to the most sophistic skeptic, that He who came to save the world is accused of fostering its demise? Institutionalized systems of religion, education, commerce, governments, humankind have all contributed, liberally, to the wellspring of bickering, bloodshed, and coercion witnessed over the centuries. (Anyone paying attention to Washington, lately?)
Our forefathers were running from ecclesiastical establishments in Europe that served to support tyrannical governments— not faith in God—but abuses and corruptions of it. It would be disingenuous to infer they were running from God or His precepts.
In examining some 15,000 writings of America’s founders to determine the primary sources for establishing our government, historians found the number one source to be the Bible.
American Founder Noah Webster considered the “Father of American Scholarship and Education,” observed: “The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.” He went on to suggest, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Fast-forward two-centuries and observe; ask yourself, “What’s been missing in our present ‘socially engineered’ culture?” That’s right. It’s God and His precepts! God is nonexistent?
“We do not need more of the things
that are seen, we need more of the things
that are unseen.”
Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President
Some see beauty everywhere, others see little beauty anywhere; are we to conclude that beauty is nonexistent simply because others do not have eyes that see, or ears that welcome all that is beautiful?
Beauty, like belief in God, becomes fragile when it is not understood, misrepresented, misinterpreted, ignored and left to die within us for lack of nurturing.
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything
that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s
handwriting—a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair
sky, in every flower, and thank God for it
as a cup of blessing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Garry Gamble
Grand Marais
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