Today we celebrate our country, our independence & we should. We are blessed with many Freedoms and Choices in our Daily walk of Life. Including the right to choose to follow Yeshua (Jesus) in The Way of God’s Plan in this Kingdom here on Earth. A way guiding us to have ” Life, Love, Joy ” on Earth as it is in Heaven. The Way taught thru “Word(s)” & how they Create or Destroy. In this is revealed the Power within The Word(s). In words The Way to ” Oneness” with God and oneness with one another is revealed.. Unfortunately, many seem to have forgotten exactly what the foundation of America is. What we were founded on & that those foundations were strongly formed from the Foundations of God’s Word(s), which were revealed for ALL mankind that they might have Life, Joy, Mercy, and the Compassion found in Love. In truth, this country was founded on the new commandment given by Jesus in John 13:34 which is: ” that ye Love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also Love one another”
Proof of this is found in President Lincoln’s Gettysburg address stating the goal of The Way Life in America ….. Abraham Lincoln’s carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, was one of the greatest and most influential statements of national purpose. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence[5] and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis,[6] with “a new birth of freedom“[7] that would bring true equality to ALL of its citizens.[8] Lincoln also redefined the Civil War as a struggle not just for the Union, but also for the principle of human equality.[5]Beginning with the now-iconic phrase “Four score and seven years ago”—referring to the Declaration of Independence, written at the start of the American Revolution in 1776—Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners (and the nation) to ensure the survival of America’s representative democracy, that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
And further proof of the Way of Life for America is in the Declaration of Independence. Something I believe we could ALL stand to read over again now in 2015 – because from what I am seeing we are loosing site of What we are celebrating, of what this country is founded on and choosing instead to walk away from the Light of Life and Freedom these speak of and instead are going backward into the darkness of the dark ages to be led by greed, selfishness, & division – in other words class separation, spiritual separation, and racism once again looming on the horizon. Time after time it has been proven… “ a House divided can Not stand “ When will mankind learn? It seems so clear when you read these 2 writings “if followed” we would be headed down the right track… Are we closing of our eyes and ears to be once again buried in the lies and bondage of slavery…and I am speaking of slavery on all levels for ALL people. Both literally and spiritually. So in this time of celebration of our God Blessed country, I believe it would serve us all well to read and embrace the Word(s) America was/is founded in. Below is a segment of the Declaration of Independence we are all celebrating…in it remember this is for ” all of God’s children” who choose to walk in the Love of human equality. At the bottom of the page are sites with both the full Gettysburg Address and Declaration of Independence. Both well worth reading.
” 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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…..
I for believe in His Word and believe it would be Greatly to America’s advantage to Read and Proclaim these well written and said speeches of our leaders ” in the beginnings” of the creation of the USA. Only this time…I say we LIVE it – don’t just say it. From all I read the goal of the “new America” was the Love of the new commandment given by Jesus and what abundant harvest that Love would bring { if LIVED } to ALL those sharing that Love and what it produces….in other words as stated in Haggai 2:9 – ” The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Yes, if we LIVE our daily lives in Life, Liberty, & the pursuit of Happiness (which is truly only found in Love) we would have Peace in America which we Love.
Have a Happy 4th of July and may it be filled with Love and the fruit thereof abound.
Full Declaration of Independence: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Gettysburg Address – it’s short so I decided I should end with this:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863