Over two thousand years ago Three Wise Men followed a heavenly star that led them to the newborn baby Jesus. Today, billions of people around the world still celebrate his birth and follow his teachings. Teachings that are filled with love, joy, hope and peace.
Over two hundred years ago another group of Wise Men, known as our Founding Fathers, signed a Declaration of Independence that would ultimately lead to the birth of our Nation.
Most will agree that our Nation was founded by these Wise Men who believed in the same Judeo-Christian principles that Jesus taught.
Others may argue semantics, as they try to minimize the part God played in the founding of our Nation. However, God is imbedded in our Nation, and the naysayers will need a sandblaster and a history revisionist to remove him from our buildings, money, monuments and documents.
Like the Three Wise Men who sought out Jesus, our Founding Fathers left comfortable lives to pursue a dangerous journey in search of something bigger than themselves.
They risked everything to give the men and women of our future Nation a better life. A life rooted in something more valuable than material possessions or status. They sought to provide us all with a life free from government tyranny.
“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.”
Most Americans have read or heard that first sentence of the second paragraph in The Declaration of Independence.
How many have heard or read the last sentence of that paragraph?
“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
If you read the facts they then list, you may see some eerily similar injuries and usurpations being levied upon our country today.
The first fact they list, “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” This of course means that the King refused to accept our laws.
Sound familiar? Like the King of old, our current leaders refuse to accept, or enforce, our laws for the public good.
We watch silently as our “leaders” either ignore our laws, or selectively and unequally enforce them.
They blatantly refuse to secure our border to protect the American people.
They allow unvetted foreigners to invade our country, human traffickers to prosper, and drug cartels to poison our children.
They aid and abet law breaking criminals by allowing our failed justice department to simply release them back onto our streets.
As they let these violent criminals, rapists, murderers and the like free, they arrest, imprison and then zealously prosecute non-violent citizens who dare to question their King like behavior.
Our Founding Fathers refused to bow to tyranny, and In the last sentence of the Declaration, they put everything on the line.
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
This is where their words and their actions came together. They were willing to back up their words with their very lives.
Our current leaders take an oath, but unlike our Founding Fathers, they pledge nothing of real personal value. Their lives are pampered, not risked, their fortunes are increased, not put in peril, and their honor is often times compromised for personal or political gain.
Do we have any Wise, principled, independent leaders representing us in Washington, or are they all just “Rich Men North of Richmond”?
This Christmas, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, let us remember his life, his death and his resurrection as we look forward to his return.
Let us also remember The Three Wise men who honored him and our wise Founding Fathers who risked everything to create this unique Nation that far too many Americans now take for granted.
Let us pray that our Nation is able to find wise, ethical, moral leaders who are worthy of the Nation our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. Men and women who are willing to put the good of our Nation first, before themselves, their donors and their political parties.
Regardless of personal religious or political beliefs, let us all embrace the love, joy, hope and peace that Jesus gave to the world such a long time ago.
Merry Christmas and God Bless America.
