Don't Worry

By Douglas V. Gibbs

I am an optimist.  I believe this country can be turned around.  I believe that if God can create an entire universe, and fill it with all of the wonders we have seen through science, and more wonders we have yet to discover, if it is His Will, turning America around is an easy task.

However. . .

We have to want it, and we have to work towards it, and we have to put it in His Hands.

The final sentence of the Declaration of Independence reads: "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."

In my life, I have experienced a number of storms that should have caused me to worry.  Right now, I am going through a medical difficulty that creates all kinds of potential worries.  But I don't worry about any of it.  It is all in God's Hands.  If I spent my time worrying, I would get nothing done.

Same thing with America.  I don't worry.  I simply work towards the solutions that will turn this all around.  With God, and the United States Constitution, the goal is obtainable.

When the Roman Republic was transitioning from a free republic into a statist controlled empire that had made the representative part of the government irrelevant, a young legal mind named Cicero preached about Honest Government.  At one point, while Cicero was speaking on the floor of the legislature, the politicians turned their backs to him as he spoke.  In return for all of his efforts, he was exiled, and while in Greece he published a book about the government Rome used to be, and how they could return to that kind of representative republic if the Roman people were willing to fight for it.  His publisher said to him, "You've been exiled.  Who will read your book?"

Thomas Jefferson read Cicero's book, and because of that, Cicero was an integral part of the creation of the American System.

I don't worry.  Either we will get this turned around, or we are Cicero and our efforts will be noticed and followed by a future generation, or this is indeed the end of days and it is in God's Hands. . . but if it is the latter, as Christians, what a great witness for us to still fight for what is right.

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