Throughout
world history there have been recurrent themes in our human earthly pursuit of trying
to learn who we are supposed to be, and how we ought to interact with one
another. God has shown us many things about our successes and failures through
His Word, and the annals of history have confirmed those repeatedly,
demonstrating that only individual people repent of their mistakes and learn
from history. Governments never learn, but though they might have once been
wholly equitable and just at their beginning, with time and self-indulgence
those once august governments became wholly self-absorbed and overthrew the
rights and justice by which they were once founded by their citizens.
Hundreds
of years ago, North American colonists struggled to sort out their meaning and
destiny, upon these lands that we call these United States of America. The
History Channel has brought the American Revolution, or War of Independence, to
life, more honestly than ever, that we might see the rawness, the terribleness,
the tyranny, the humanity, the weaknesses, and the victories of our “American”
struggle. Let us take notice thereof, that we each might clarify who we are and
what it means to be a citizen of this Nation, based on the foundational
struggles of this Nation and based on our Founding Documents.
In
conjunction with watching this landmark series, I highly recommend reading our
Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, that we each
might clarify in our own minds the cost of freedom; that we should return
to that Liberty for which our Forebears fought so hard to carve out of
themselves and history; that we might aspire and work to remain a free people
under constitutional law, unfettered by the kind of tyranny and worldly lust
and domination that caused the Colonists’ pot to boil over, the seething and
overflow of which did foster the necessity to discover the Founding Principles
and Documents of this Nation, under God.
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