Thought For The Day

A Changing Society

Talking to older people always brings insight. Much of any conversation will begin with the words, “well back when. . . .” Heaven knows many are “guilty” of reliving the past and wishing and hoping and wondering. That is certainly not a bad thing, after all if we don’t know the past we won’t know how to measure the future.

It is crucial to understand that actions taken today affect tomorrow. Talk to someone who is old enough to remember when there was no television. When it comes to communication, talk to someone who remembers when there was limited telephone service, or even the many who can remember when there was no Internet. People thought and acted without knowing what other people thought and what actions they had taken.

Concern for the future of our Nation must focus on those who are without much acumen regarding the birth, early history, and difficulties that faced our Nation in past centuries. The number of people who are lacking such knowledge is legion. They are easily swayed by those who would lead them down a path that history reveals is fraught with dangerous and destructive results. The quote (in one form or another) “Those who fail to study history are condemned to relive it,” (attributed at times to Santayana, Edmund Burke, Winston Churchill, etc.) comes to mind.

Many parts of our society have moved perilously close to an abandonment of God’s Word (if not God Himself), and seem to have a desire to abandon the stability of the United States of America represented by our Constitution, the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, and our unassailable Democracy, while ignoring the historic collapse of sensibilities among mankind regarding every discipline of life on Earth without those restraints.

This very year, in the mind of this author, is critical beyond measure for our investment in the grace of God, the blessings of God in our National history, a definitive recognition and memory of historical facts, and a pursuit of Godliness in individual lives. Every intellectual marker, every societal guideline, every historical reality, demands it. Every Truth remains – with or without our concern and involvement. It is the Truth that sets us free!

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