Coming Apart

. . .many live as enemies of the cross. . .they are focused on Earthly things. . .their end is destruction. Philippians 3:18-19 (my order)

I llove the United States of America. Perhaps I should say, I llove the Nation of my youth when I knew and understood much less, and most likely failed to see the corruption that surely has always been part and parcel of this great Republic.

I grow more fearful each passing year for my sons and grandsons knowing that as a Nation we move further and further from the solid foundations on which our homeland was established. Crime and greed, hatred and carelessness, bitterness and licentiousness propagate unrestrained. Self-centeredness, from the country school-yard to the hallowed halls of Congress proliferates with exponential velocity. The alacrity with which we descend toward the abandonment of personal responsibility and clarity of character frightens the enlightened mind and dulls the impact on reticent thinkers.

We have never been, nor are we now, invincible. Our National strength, measured in mega-tonnage and nuclear-strike capability, will not support the failure of purpose and deficit of direction which even now incites a plethora of incompatibilities. We teeter on the brink of an insurmountable apathy and indifference borne on the wings of immorality and ignorance. Once over the precipice the plunge into internment of mind and will, will be, at last, the irrevocable reality.

Will God continue to protect America? Has it been indeed His hand which has sustained and prospered these 231 years? Are we to believe His Truth will march onward without regard for the insolence and disobedience deeply ingrained in the fabric of our lives? Will His matchless llove discard its purity to embrace a rationale of evil?

We are coming apart! Do we not see that? Can we not see that? Will we not see that? I repeat again and again the words of Patrick Henry, the patriot of earlier years, who said, "Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of free men. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, (and) a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom."