Government Intrusion Inevitable Without Morality

By Michele Rayburn

I cannot forget that our second President, John Adams, said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." This means that when the people cease to be a moral people, then government intrusion will be inevitable.

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness..." Isaiah 5:20

Without the people pursuing God and His righteousness, the inevitable result of having a godless, immoral society is to have the government regulate their behavior, instead of God doing it through their consciences. If the people have no moral restraints of their own, then someone must restrain them.

Ideally, and hopefully soon, God will once again become the Restrainer of our morality. But people have yet to believe that God is the only One Who can restrain us. He does it spiritually. He has to change our "heart of stone" first, as the Bible says, and give us a "heart of flesh".

The only way to end abortion is for people to have a change of heart. That change has to come from God. And those that already know Him must pray for America daily, that He will revive us again.

For many, there is some worry and even some anger as we see these things unfold---an apathetic, increasingly godless nation that seems to be unconcerned about virtually everything, including what is going on in our government.

As long as people go further and further away from the knowledge of the true God, and have no moral foundation or moral restraints, it will become inevitable that we will see the government take over more and more of our lives. They are doing it partly for our safety, but mostly to take advantage of us in their quest for power, ignoring the real solution to our "heart" problem, because they are ignoring God.

But we should look at all these things unfolding like a tapestry, from God's point of view, and trust Him as the Grand Designer. Know that He is in control of this whole situation, and that nothing happening in America escapes His notice or confounds His Master Plan. There is a Plan and Purpose for these events unfolding the way they are. And I just hope that many will find peace of mind in trusting God for the outcome of all these events.

I began studying politics because I wanted to see what God was doing in that arena of life. I find it fascinating and appalling at the same time. If it were not for my faith in the Sovereign God, Who is in control of all things, I would be robbed of my joy. But since I do know Him, I am able to hold onto Him, steadfast in my faith, unable to be moved (spiritually speaking) by the shocking things going on in our country.

It is good and important to know what is going on in our country, and to stand for what is right. But it is vital to not lose sight of the Sovereign God, Who is in total control of all these events---though it may not seem like it most of the time.

That's what faith is.

What Do Tornadoes and Roe v. Wade Have In Common?

What do tornadoes and Roe v. Wade have in common?

They both happened on my birthday.

On January 22, 1999, tornadoes swept through Clarksville, Tennessee, greatly damaging much of our historic downtown area, including several stately church buildings, the local newspaper building, the County Courthouse, and a bunch of lawyers' offices (no chuckling).

Today's Leaf Chronicle headline:

TORNADO: 10 YEARS LATER

Today, of course, driving through downtown, you would never know it had happened.

A Cultural Moral Tornado

A cultural moral "tornado" occurred on my birthday in 1973. So much more damaging than the Clarksville tornadoes, comparison is absurd.

The Supreme Court of the United States abandoned their rightful role as Interpreter of the Constitution, and took on the role of Legislature by, in effect, making a ruling that the right to "abortion on demand" would now be the law of the land.

Thirty-six years later, just under 50 million unborn children have been slain in (and out) of the womb. Legally.

Just for comparison, here are the current population figures for several entire countries:

United Kingdom - 60.7 million
Italy - 58.1 million
South Korea - 49 million
Spain - 40.4 million
Canada - 33.3 million

Do you see what has been done? The equivalent of a major nation wiped out.

John Ensor is the Vice President of Heartbeat International and author of Answering the Call: Saving Innocent Lives, One Woman At a Time.

He wrote the following:

"Some years ago, a woman named Suzanne came to me while I was setting up a pregnancy-help clinic in Boston.

She said, 'If I have the abortion, I will have more money to spend on my other two children.'

I asked, 'What do you think your children would say if they knew you were doing this so that they could have cable TV and other stuff?'

She said, 'Well, I'll ask them.'

Then and there I knew the baby would live. Abortion is unthinkable to children--incomprehensible, horrific, something that would never enter their minds to do.

Sure enough, the children were aghast at the thought.

'We want the baby,' they reassured her.

Some months later, after the baby arrived, I heard her share her story. She said she was embarrassed to think back on her earlier state of mind. She had joined the circle of those who think abortion unthinkable." (HT: Challies)

I will still have a Happy Birthday.

I trust in the sovereignty of God. I know He will exercise justice in the end. But I also know that some of that justice has already been exercised in the death of His Son, Jesus Christ. From that He offers mercy.

The same God who forgave me of all my sins stands ready to forgive all who come to Jesus Christ, believing in Him as Lord and Savior, believing that He died on the cross to pay for their sins, and believing that God has raised Him from the dead.

I'm glad I was born.

And born again.