As I sit and watch and listen to every sort of argument concerning our rights as Americans and see our society get more and more chaotic, I am forced to state the obvious. This is an attempt to impart some common sense in this senseless world.
  I want to go back to a beginning. Our country came about by many events from Christopher Columbus making the discovery of this land in 1492 or all the way back to 1215 to the Magna Carta.  I will stay with the familiar and begin with The Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th 1776. In this beginning document signed by 57 noble men declaring our country independent from Britain and it must be noted that they all were praying men. Ben Franklin was a part of the whole process and he wrote in a letter; "The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other -- our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of ...the imperfection of the Human Understanding......... In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. -- Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered."
  The term "Father of lights" is a term from scripture, exactly found in James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
  There are many who say that we were not a country built on Christian principles, but here is but one of many examples of proof that our country was, indeed, built upon Christian principles. This is my desire, to point those who will read or hear my thoughts to come to realize that we are way off the mark in our society.
  So, back to the Declaration of Independence. In the opening paragraphs, we see God as the key authority in making a declaration of a free country;


  In Congress, July 4, 1776
  The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
  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.


  Nature's God is spoken of in the very first paragraph! A free country is a product of our Creator! Scripture makes reference again to the source of this statement; "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead..." (Romans 1:20) If they were praying men. Praying to the Father of Lights. Doesn't it make sense that we were built upon Christian principles?
  Let's read on;


  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men...."


  "They are endowed by their Creator". What are the "unalienable rights"? "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" Again Creator God is mentioned and His gifts to men are laid out. When we take God out of the equation, life becomes meaningless. Abortion on demand, joy killings, high murder rates, or lack of respect to our fellow countrymen become lacking. Screaming equal rights but squashing the rights of someone with another view has become commonplace. Hatred towards another robs the freedom of conscious for the hater as well as the hated. This is not liberty. There is no true happiness in our day. we all are pursuing more of what we already have enough of. We all are in debt from our personal finances to the federal government. Debt robs us of life, because we can't live it. It robs us of liberty because we become slaves to the one we owe. Put those together and we have no happiness.
  Take a moment and think about what was promised in scripture concerning life. Jesus said in John 10:10,  "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Life more abundant. Don't we want that? The framers of our republic wanted it, prayed for it, and God gave it because they prayed in the name of Jesus who is the giver of life.
  What about liberty? 1 Corinthians 3:17,
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
We have taken our liberty to focus only on our personal wants that we are killing the liberty of another which causes your liberty to be taken in the long run. Listen to the writer of Galatians 5:13,

"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Where the Spirit of the Lord is we have liberty. When we become so consumed by our own wants and forget the wants of another, liberty is taken from us all.

  There is no true happiness when we push the God out that the founding Fathers clung so tightly to. Wake up America.

  The Declaration goes on to list the grievances toward Britain and reasons why we are to be Independent. The last paragraph is as follows;

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. —And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

  They made reference to God as the "Supreme Judge of the world". I have already noted the Christian principles that guided our Fathers. The God of the Jew and the Christian is who is the Supreme Judge spoken of here. He provided every protection and provided every need to make us grow to the greatest country to ever exist outside of Israel.

  I beg all who read, let's get this country back to the Christ who made it possible to be a country. There is a moral guide that needs to be followed. Morality is not inside of us, it is outside and must be followed. Take a good look around. Everyone is angry. Let's come together under one banner. Be united. Let's be united under the living banner of Christ just as our country did in the very beginning.