In the book of Psalms, God warns: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.”
Only the law of God can bring true happiness and freedom to humanity. The Framers of the U.S. Constitution understood this to a large extent, and so crafted a document to restrain the power of carnal people who sought dictatorial powers to create their own version of utopia, guided only be their own human reasoning.
In his farewell address, President George Washington warned that if respect for the Constitution eroded to a point were the RULE OF LAW no longer restrained political parties, there would be no guarantee of liberty! He said:
It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property. I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state .… The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
The RULE OF LAW has already disintegrated to the point where the nation is in grave danger of descending into civil war between feuding political factions that no longer care about any sort of law or constitution.
We must see what is happening in America as God does. He does not blame Barack Obama nor any other politician in the way many political commentators do. In the end, these nation-destroying problems are actually correction from God to help us see our sins and repent of them. The spirit of lawlessness that has taken hold in America can only end in the erosion of our freedoms. Only after we realize that there is no freedom without law will God be able to teach us the way to true peace, joy and prosperity!
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