By: Dale Weckbacher
Exodus 12:14
'So this day shall be
to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your
generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his
children's children,
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These two verses in Exodus and Proverbs remind us to leave
memorials and inheritances to our children.
To the Jews, a memorial was remembering all the things God did for
them. For example, Passover is a feast
where Jews remember how God miraculously delivered Israel from their Egyptian
slavery. For Christians, the Passover
feast also points to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Jewish families also were encouraged to leave
a financial inheritance for not only their children, but also their children’s
children. In this way, families helped
insure the care and well-being of each successive generation.
In the 238-year history of our nation, freedom-loving people
have strived to leave a better and more prosperous country for each successive
generation. This has not been easy but
for the most part, each successive generation in our nation has enjoyed a
better and more prosperous nation.
However, the next generation in our nation may actually be the first
forced to settle for a less prosperous and most importantly less free
nation.
The founders dreamed of a nation where each individual
enjoyed the same freedoms and opportunities to prosper. This does not mean, however, that every
individual in the nation would become wealthy, only that each individual would
have the opportunity to become wealthy should they decide to do the work
necessary to accumulate wealth. Each successive
generation in our nation has been able to learn from the successes and mistakes
of their ancestors and advance.
However, politicians on both sides of the aisle have learned
to campaign for office promising government programs that will take care of
people’s needs without them having to work for it. Of course, these goodies come at the cost of
some individual liberties. However,
politicians know that if they are able to little by little chip away at
liberties, people will not notice they have lost their liberties until it is
too late. The current state of our
nation is the result of 100 years of progressivism that began in 1914 during
the Wilson Administration.
During the Wilson Administration, the nation saw the
Constitution amended to make taxation of individual income constitutional. It saw the formation of the Federal Reserve,
a centralized banking system with the power to control the nation’s money
supply and the changing the election of U.S. Senators from through state
legislatures to by the voters.
These three acts have resulted in the redistribution of
wealth. This is because the income tax has
evolved into a tax where the top income earners in the nation pay a majority of
the tax while those in the lower income brackets either pay little or no tax. Many even receive refundable tax credits such
as the Earned Income Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit, which constitutes
a direct transference of wealth. Each
time the Federal Reserve meets, the economy holds its breath wondering if the
actions of the Fed will mean a contraction or expansion of the money
supply. Senators are no longer accountable
to their states and instead win election to office by voters interested in
receiving more largesse from an ever-expanding Federal Government
leviathan.
To make matters worse politicians now tell us that the
future of our nation is somehow in the hands of minors or so called dreamers
who have illegally entered our nation.
These individuals have entered our nation not seeking a better life by
taking advantage of the liberties and opportunities our ancestors came here for
but instead come seeking a free education, healthcare, and a home. Many have also come to our nation carrying
diseases such as scabies, tuberculosis, and lice. As our government moves these people from the
border into the interior of our nation, these serious diseases, diseases our nation
has eradicated, into our nation so we can all share them. I recently received a tweet encouraging
people to get their immunizations up to date for the future looks rather scary. That is an understatement and good advice
I for one do not plan to have this be the memorial and
inheritance I am going to leave for my family.
However, not all is lost for we do still have elections but we have to
start winning these elections beginning with the next two before we slide any
further over the cliff. We also have the
Lord who has promised in His Word to
Philippians 4:19
And this same God who
takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which
have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
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1 Peter 2:24
He personally carried
away our sins in his own body on the cross so we can be dead to sin and live
for what is right. You have been healed by his wounds!
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In other words, in Christ we have provision for our needs
and healing for our diseases. I find
this to be a source of great comfort in my life for no matter what government
does or who wins election to office, I can put my trust in a God who is more
powerful than any government or government official. If you have not already done so, I encourage
you to give your life to Christ and ask him to forgive you of your sins and
come into your heart (Romans 10:9-10).
These are troubling times and there will no doubt be many
struggles ahead but giving your heart to the Lord opens the door to an eternal
relationship with God that has eternal life in the glorious presence of the
Lord as a reward (John 3:16). After all,
we need every advantage in these troubling times.
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