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Across America there is a growing desperation.  Older citizens fear for what their grandchildren are going to face.  Parents fear that their children will experience the violence of a street gang, or rapist, or satanist— or they fear their teenage daughter may turn up pregnant.  With more and more young people using drugs, parents fear their child may get hooked too.  Young people fear that their parents may be the next to divorce.  People are asking, “Is there anything in this world that is stable?”

There is an answer to that question!  A resounding answer:  “YES!!”  And you might be surprised to know that, in the past, there have been those who have known this stability.  The Founding generation in America walked in it.  And though they were beset with war, economic woes, and having to build a new government in the midst of all this, they still knew where the ‘Rock’ was.  They constantly turned to Jesus Christ and His Word as “the stability of their times”.  They believed His Word was “truth”, as the Bible taught (John 17:17).  They lived out the reality of the Scriptures as they sought to obey it in their personal lives and built it into their institutions.  Daniel Webster spoke of them and their faith when he stated:

“Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment…a government and a country were to commence with the very first foundations laid under the divine light of the Christian religion…Our fathers were brought [here] by their high [respect] for the Christian religion.  They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope.  They sought to…diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or [educational].”

(Webster, Daniel. The Works of Daniel Webster (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853), Vol. I, p. 48.  Marshall Foster and Mary-Elaine Swanson, The American Covenant – The Untold Story (Thousand Oaks, CA: The Mayflower Institute, 1983, 1992), p. 158.)

We, too, can know this Rock of stability in our personal lives, as well as our cultural institutions—if we are willing to be obedient to Jesus Christ.  Our forefathers built the greatest nation in world history by basing their personal lives and their institutions of education, economy, and government, on the Scriptures.  Noah Webster, the Father of our original education method, promised us:

“The virtue which is necessary to preserve a just administration and render a government stable, is Christian virtue, which consists in the uniform practice of moral and religious duties, in conformity with the laws of…God…”

(Webster, Noah. A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary and Moral Subjects (New York: Burt Franklin, 1843, reprinted 1968), p. 270. Stephen McDowell and Mark Beliles, “The Providential Perspective”: The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, Va. 22906, January 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 5.)

If we will live lives of obedience to the Scripture, receiving Jesus Christ as our Master and Savior, then reading the Bible completely through over and over throughout our lifetime, we will learn both what God created us to do and how to do it.  We can preserve the liberty of our children to hear and walk in the truth of the Scripture:  We, and they, can know the ‘Rock of Stability’ for our times.

However, if we believe the lies of the nightly news cast, the deceptions of the textbooks in public schools, and the sitcoms of our day, our children will be destroyed.  Sam Adams, the Father of our American Revolution, identified the fortress of our personal and national security when he wrote:

“Revelation assures us that ‘Righteousness exalts a nation’.  Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe.  He rewards or punishes them according to their general character.  The [lessening] of public virtue is usually attended with [the lessening] of public happiness, and… public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

‘The Roman Empire [Adams quotes an historian] must have sunk, though the Goths had not invaded it. Why? Because the Roman [morality] was sunk.’

“Could I be assured that America would remain [morally good], I would venture to defy the utmost efforts of enemies to [enslave] her.”

(Adams, Samuel. April 30, 1776, in a letter to John Scollay of Boston. Norman Cousins, In God We Trust – The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958), pp. 351-352. Stephen McDowell and Mark Beliles, “Providential Perspective” (The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, VA. 22906, January 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 2.)

If our forefathers knew the ‘Rock of stability’, can’t we know Him too?

Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children!  And you won’t like what that brings to you.  I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.