Not To Be Compromised...

July 25

Hunting. Fishing. Bartering. Trading. Engaging in commerce. Man has, from his earliest history, found a means of acquiring what he needs and what he desires to have. It is believed that our earliest ancestors were foragers and gathers who were largely self-reliant for their daily existence.

As he became more sophisticated, he began to barter and trade for goods and services. In our modern age, few of us approximate early man in our self-sufficiency. We are totally dependent upon the grocery store for our food, the department store for our clothing, the media for our information, the government for our sustenance.

This is at total variance with the concepts discovered by our forbearers who realized that industry brings rewards and dependence upon others results in abject failure. Those early peoples devoted themselves to hard work and self-sufficiency. They endeavored to devise governments based upon the same proven principles. This was perhaps most true regarding the early settlers of America.

In fact, these stalwarts of the Christian faith founded their earliest documents and those subsequent (investigate the preamble to EVERY state constitution) upon Biblical doctrines such as, “Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline, and understanding” Proverbs 23:23. They knew that the inerrant Word of God was not to be compromised, sacrificed, or traded away. Would that today’s leaders were as wise as their predecessors.