Why Christians Must Be Right

Late February, the wind blowing at my back as I waited on my neighbor, I stood on the porch and looked at the decorations that lined the yard and the entrance to the home. A wooden Americana Yankee Doodle Dandy hung on the exterior wall alongside another wooden Americana flag. On the other side of the porch were more reminders of this great land. Thoughts of my childhood and the Great Nation that was handed to me flooded my mind. I recounted in my thoughts the freedoms that were passed down from previous generations. My chest swelled with pride, I had the opportunity to be an American from birth. That emotion consumed me for a brief moment, until I began to think of my children and the America that they are receiving from us. With this realization, my eyes began to mist, and I began to make a silent prayer for this nation. The America our children are experiencing is not the same America we grew up enjoying. Oh the flag still has thirteen stripes and it still has white stars against a dark blue velvet backdrop, but the meaning to some is something completely different today. America was a place where hope sprung forth from a foundation of personal liberty. A liberty that said you can be what you want, if you are willing to work long and hard enough to do it. Today, many voices in America are using the same phrases, but mean things entirely different. The hope that sprung forth, they now say is in government. The liberty they speak of is not from government intrusion, but liberty to get whatever you want from government. True personal liberty has, for the most part, been thrown into the ash heap of history in the minds of many. This simply will not do. America holds too much potential for us to let her slip away. We owe our children more than a symbol of what America used to be or stories of what it was like to be free. I pray our children will sing the words, “land of the free and home of the brave” with more than feeling, with meaning. There has come a vacuum in the land. This vacuum has tried to eradicate God from the hearts and minds of the people. We have been told that the void that remains should be filled by government. The future of this nation rests in the hands of what seems to be a reluctant people, a people that are told to remain silent, that are told they are the minority, a people who are ridiculed in the public square. These are the ones for whom this book is written. The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy and instructed him to, “Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee… For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord…” (2 Timothy 1:6-8)