A Nation divided cannot stand when pressed into action. Today we see the division of this country
ripping us apart. Battle lines are drawn
between Republican & Democrat. And
now we have Liberalism and Socialism to muddy the waters.
So I sit and ponder the cause of such division. I open my Bible and find Matthew 7: 24-27
which tells us to build wisely; to build on rock rather than sand. I take a wider look at this and begin to form
a conclusion, not just in building, but in sustaining what has been built.
Our country was built on the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. Over the recent years many have taken to
tearing down this legacy; to diminish their great creation, with
misunderstandings of their times. Today we face a major challenge. This challenge is to harness their wisdom and
apply it to modern times.
Our Founding
Fathers recognized the importance of education & preserving our liberties. George Washington said: “The more homogeneous (or similar) our Citizens can be made in these
particulars, the greater will be our prospect of permanent Union; and a primary
object of such a National Institution should be, the education of our Youth in
the science of Government. In a
Republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty,
more pressing on its Legislature, than to patronize a plan for communicating it
to those, who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the Country? “(Bennett,
1997)
Noah Webster (commonly referred to as the Father of American
Scholarship & Education) said: “But
every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with
ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should
rehearse the history of his own country; he should lisp the praise of liberty,
and of these illustrious heroes and statesman who have wrought a revolution in
her favor. (Bennett, 1997)
So as you can see from the very beginning they realized that
their work in forming a Nation, the lessons learned that caused them to break
from a tyrannical government, needed to be passed on to our youth so as to not
lose sight of our patriotism and fall back into confusion, separation, divisiveness
and tyranny. This is the path I see our
great country going down today, and I ask why?
The answer is simple; the education of our youth has become
a cesspool of liberalism. As I have
wrote about before our country is being torn apart from the inside out. Our enemies (and yes we have many) realized
long ago they couldn’t beat us on the perimeters so they infiltrated from within;
and the greatest of our enemies is satan.
We live in a promised land whether you realize it or
not. We live in a land of milk and honey
but it has been tarnished with dreams of silk and money. Our enemy has coursed his way into the hearts
and minds of educators that serve less than patriotic and Godly aspirations and
more a self- serving and scientific or mathematical solution to
everything. They have used the separation
of Church and State not to keep our government from enacting a national
religion (as intended) but rather to remove God from our very existence. They have twisted our ancient ideals into
modern day immoralities.
So, not only has our education system been attacked from
teaching the core values and ideals this country was based on, but also to
remove formal training in the skills of labor.
We have migrated into this thought pattern that a $40,000 liberal arts
degree is more valuable than learning carpentry. Faced with shrinking budgets schools
eliminated shop class and home economics in favor of standardized testing that
does nothing more than create generations of like thinking uneducated zombies;
students who can pass a test rather than think for themselves. Tests that are multiple-choice instead of
essay questions that challenge the mind and make our youth really think rather
than memorize.
A system of education that recognizes our history and
teaches our youth survival skills is paramount to our survival as a
nation. As Noah Webster so eloquently
states “ such a system of education as gives every citizen an opportunity of
acquiring knowledge and fitting himself for places of trust. These are fundamental articles; the sine qua
non (Latin for something absolutely essential) of the existence of the American
republics”. (Bennett, 1997)
Many of our educators today seem to have nothing more in
mind than a mission to remove the American ideals this country was founded on. They are a cancer on our Republic for they
have forgotten that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who
follow His precepts have good understanding” (Psalm 111) and “The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and knowledge"
(Proverbs 1). They have forgotten or
choose to ignore what Solomon said about wisdom “if you call out for insight
and cry out for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search
for it as hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord.”
(Proverbs 2) And what is wisdom's reward?
“Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,
the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and
yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you
desire can compare with her. Long life
is in her right hand; and in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths
are peace. She is a tree of life to
those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed” (Proverbs 3).
Our country was founded by great thinkers, leaders and men
of great wisdom. We must return to
teaching our children not only the ideals we were founded on, but the basic
beliefs this country was founded on; the basics of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness that is founded in the core beliefs of the Word of God and
the Ways of our Savior.
I know this is a lot to ask, but let’s start somewhere and let
that somewhere be in teaching the true ideals & history of our great nation and the
skills of meaningful labor, then the morals of a God loving nation will prevail
into the hearts and minds of our youth and current population so we can be a
country of togetherness rather than divisiveness. “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that
kingdom cannot stand. If a house is
divided against itself, that house cannot stand” (Mark 3: 24-25).
"Together We Stand...Divided We Fall" (Pink Floyd, 1979)
"Together We Stand...Divided We Fall" (Pink Floyd, 1979)
REFERENCES &
REFLECTIONS:
Bennett 1997 – Bennett, William J. - “The Spirit of America, Our
Sacred Honor” © Simon & Schuster NY, NY.
1997 Pages 257-258 and 265-266
Holy Bible – NIV – © 2006 Zondervan Publishers Grand Rapids, Michigan U.S.A.
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