America has a lot of enemies in this world.
Some have said these enemies exist because we are too powerful or cite some transgression on the part of America as being responsible for their hatred.
But beyond foreign powers who have nukes or are about to get them and agitated idiots with towels on their heads hoping to overthrow us - there is one enemy we haven't looked at who is the most dangerous of all and poses the greatest threat to us as we marshall to defend the country: Ourselves.
Most of our problems as a nation - internally and externally - would be solved if we simply lived out the Ten Commandments.
I could even throw out the first three because in living the last seven you're going to probably be keeping the first three anyways.
For example, much of the class envy and even recent legislation - indeed an entire campaign was focused on breaking the 8th commandment and the 10th - stealing and coveting. Coveting that which wasn't ours, a lack of gratitude for what we have, and being willing to pass laws to take from others what we wanted and calling it "fairness"
That significant piece of legislation called "healthcare" was also a violation of the 9th commandment - there was much bearing false witness of each others' plans and a total lack of honesty on the entire project. Greed for power and corruption - again violations of the 10th commandment - proved fatal to our nation.
More than that, it wasn't just the politicians who were responsible. No. It was an entire nation (collectively) that refused to be happy with what it had (coveting still what others have - greed), who refused to not be taken in by the lies (9th commandment) of a media and critically think for themselves and ask if what they were hearing and seeing were the same things - it wasn't christian stewardship of our nation.
Even the keeping of the Sabbath - Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20) would save us economically as a nation.
I worked for a company that kept this commandment or principle in the U.S.
They are the leader in what they do everywhere they are. And people need and want their services and are more than willing to wait a day to get their services. In keeping this commandment - or observing this principle - they do the same amount of business but do it in six days instead of seven and cut out 14% of their overhead increasing their profit margins significantly. Spiritually it gives us a rest as a nation, as well as gave the company's equipment a rest and everyone a break - to block out the conundrum noise of the world for a day - the rush for material goods - we save money observing this principle - and we rested our minds.
How many of our abortion issues would be solved by the sixth commandment (thou shalt not kill)? Remembering the Lord said of little children "such is the kingdom of heaven" we have ceased as a nation to value life - to value OURSELVES - when we suffer infants to be murdered. And in turn, can we really keep the 5th commandment, honor thy father and mother, when a father and mother suffer their infants to be murdered - and where do we stand when we claim some moral high ground or superiority by refusing to call it what it is?
And how many of these abortions would not be even forthcoming if we as a nation kept the seventh commandment and were chaste and saved ourselves for wedlock - committed and ready? How much less might we be tempted to covet what others want due to the burdens of having children out of wedlock?
But what does this have to do with national security?
As a nation we now lack the moral clarity to even defend ourselves anymore. We are incapable of recognizing our enemies, here or abroad. Our politicians get elected breaking the 9th commandment (lying) and promising to break the 8th (stealing) so they can cater to people who are breaking the 10th commandment (coveting). As a result to survive economically and in response to greed, we think we need to break the 4th (Sabbath day), and we no longer have rest from the world. And in turn we begin to put our faith in other things to save us and people to save us and break the first commandment, and the second and third are similarly broken thereby.
We turn outside our families for comfort breaking the 7th commandment (adultery) and lose the confidence of our children and weaken society and put a burden on it - our children wonder why they would need to keep the 5th commandment (honor your father and mother.)
If we kept those Ten Commandments - we as a nation would be so wealthy, so powerful, our enemies would have fallen in front of us long ago. There would be no stopping us - we would recognize things for what they are. But instead? We are blinded by greed, willing to steal, want something for nothing - as long as it doesn't hurt us and hurts someone else we don't know who probably deserves to have it taken from them - have little compassion for our fellow man and zero for the unborn, of whom "such is the kingdom of heaven" - that we stumble about - foolish - drunken as it were with our own intellectualism and proud of our intellectual achievements - but unable to steer a straight course as a nation or as individuals.
We will be our own downfall unless we are able to abide by those principles - we will be unable to save ourselves as a nation from the things that come and will come from breaking each and every one of those.
Most of us do not even know the liberties that were provided for us by our founding fathers - but apart from constitutional freedoms - we are slaves to greed and pride and corruption. Unless we throw off those chains - we will lose the rest of our constitutional freedoms as we sell ourselves to new masters to gain the security that would have come from keeping those simple ten commandments.
~Saturday's Warrior.
Exodus 20
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
