By: Dale Weckbacher
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore we also,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us,
NKJV
Hebrews 12:1 is a continuation of what is in chapter
11. In chapter 11, the writer of Hebrews
presents what some theologians call the hall of fame. The writer is urging us to live godly lives
by asking us to remember those that preceded us in the faith. These men such as Moses and Abraham were not
perfect but are in this hall of fame because of their great faith in God. Their mention in this hall of fame also
demonstrates the mercy of a God who accepts us in spite of our mistakes.
Yesterday, we celebrated Independence Day in the United States. The day commemorates July 4, 1776, the
signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The signers of this document knew they were committing treason and
risked losing everything they owned, including their lives by putting their
signature to this document. However,
these men were men of principle, believing that the treatment by King George in
England of the colonists was wrong and immoral.
They had spent several years attempting to have their
redresses peacefully corrected but were continually ignored. As they stated in the declaration, they
believed the time had come for action and stated this intention in the
Declaration,
When in the Course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (1)
The signers of the Declaration are
just one example of our national hall of fame in the United States for
throughout our rich history we have had other great leaders. We had George Washington who not only was our
nation’s first President but also a great military strategist that was able to
take a rag tag army and defeat the greatest military power of the time in order
to establish the independence of the new nation.
We have had Abraham Lincoln, a
self-educated man who won election to the Presidency and then faced the
division of the nation resulting in the bloodiest war in our nation’s history,
the Civil War. Lincoln’s leadership was
able to preserve the union and in the process end the practice of slavery in
our nation.
We have had leaders like Franklin
Roosevelt, someone I personally disagree with politically, who kept the nation
together when Japan brutally attacked it December 7, 1942 at Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt’s strong leadership helped the
Allies defeat the Axis powers, which included Adolf Hitler. Even though I disagree with Roosevelt’s
liberal politics, his courage and love for this country was without doubt as
demonstrated by his willingness to attack and defeat the cowards that attacked
our nation, something I believe many of our leaders today would hesitate to
do.
Then there are the unnamed heroes
of our nation. These are the people
serving in our military, firefighters, and police officers keeping us
safe. There are also those in the
medical profession that care for us when we are sick. Those that make our cars, build our homes, deliver
the goods and services we buy, and grow our food. Everyday these unnamed heroes get up early,
fight traffic, and go to work. Their
contributions, even though they may seem small to them, are part of what has
built this nation.
Unfortunately, it seems that many
of our leaders today, in the interest of building a perpetual entitlement class
depending upon them for their basic needs, discount the contributions of these great
men and women of our past. They instead
go, as Nancy Pelosi recently did, to the border and welcome lawbreakers who
have illegally entered our country claiming they are the future of this nation. (2)
We have no idea what kind of future
this will be for we have no way of knowing what these law breakers intend to do
to our country for we have no idea who they really are or where they came
from.
Is it any wonder that recent polls
show that a vast majority of the nation does not support this invasion of refugees? (3) It is pathetic that our nation’s leaders
would use children whose parents have placed them in danger in order to further
their political ambitions of transforming our country into something that would
make the authors of our Declaration of Independence roll over in their
graves. Not to mention the fact that
many of these people are bringing in diseases long eradicated in our
nation. (4)
As one of the citizens of this
country that have made an, all be it small, contribution to this nation, I am
sick and tired of constantly hearing from politicians, many of whom I may have
voted for, that these uneducated, illegal aliens somehow are the future of this
country. What are we, chopped liver?
Granted this nation has problems
but if these politicians would take their heads out of the political sands long
enough, they might realize that the solution to our nation’s problems is right
within its borders. Within the borders
of this nation is the creative knowledge and energy to save this nation but that
creative energy is currently being hampered and misdirected. Our education system indoctrinates children
into a politically correct groupthink that teaches children to spew a leftist
agenda instead of how to critically think through and create solutions to our
nation’s problems.
Our media spews its hate America
agenda making being patriotic and loving the greatness of this nation
unpopular. People that easily succumb to
peer pressure fear looking patriotic and go along with the hate America
agenda. They even vote for politicians
advancing this agenda just to remain popular.
Politicians then add the racial or gender component, and the situation
goes viral.
We must secure our borders and stop
encouraging people to illegally enter our nation. We must send all of the politicians
supporting any form of amnesty and the expansion of the entitlement system, regardless
of whether they are Democrat or Republican, home packing and replace them with
leaders interested in utilizing the creative solutions now latent within the
great people of our nation.
Our nation, just like the Christian
and Jewish faith, has a rich heritage of heroes. We also have an extensive creative energy in
our nation that must be unleashed. As we
move on past Independence Day, let us once again restore our nation to the
position of greatness brought on by the spirit of independence of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence.
If you are with me on this, please
feel free to comment to this post.
1. Hillsdale College. The Declaration of
Independance. The U.S. Constitution: A reader. Hillsdale Michigan :
Hillsdale College Press, 2012.
2. Urbanski, Dave.
Nancy Pelosi at the Border: Influx of Illegal Immigrants an ‘Opportunity,’ Not
a ‘Crisis’. www.theblaze.com. [Online] The Blaze, June 28, 2014. [Cited:
July 4, 2014.]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/28/nancy-pelosi-at-the-border-influx-of-illegal-immigrants-an-opportunity-not-a-crisis/.
3. Munro, Neil.
Gallup Shows Obama Is Wrong About Immigration. dailycaller.com. [Online]
The Daily Caller, June 29, 2014. [Cited: July 4, 2014.]
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/29/gallup-shows-obama-wrong-about-immigration/.
4. Wilde, Robert.
40 CASES OF ACTIVE SCABIES AND HEAD LICE FOUND AMONG ILLEGAL ALIENS IN
CALIFORNIA. www.breitbart.com. [Online] Breitbart News, July 2, 2014.
[Cited: July 4, 2014.] http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/07/02/7-Cases-of-Active-Scabies-Found-on-Illegal-Immigrants-in-Chula-Vista.
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