Is the state of our nation at peace? It is necessary for the
public safety to have a good body of veteran soldier ever in the state of readiness.
In 1516, in England there were many nobles who sat idle and made their fortunes
off the other men’s labors.[1] In
1846 the American government has lost its vitality because a single man has
been able to break the rules of checks and balances—to bend it to a will of
confusion. Government is supposed to impose of its citizens what is to their
advantage but not to force the wills of doctrine that breaks their spirits.[2]
Yet in there are many men who were sitting in the wings, to
become “noble men” and make their wealth off the backs of men’s labor. These
American nobles occasional threw a crumb of charity to keep the average man off
their door steps in the world of begging for food, clothing, or shelter.
Do we see a difference in 2014? Our soldiers return from
service injured and in many cases with no hope. Our government has let its own
employees down.
In recent years, I have seen more and more revert to the
streets. There are men, women, and children with worn tattered health and
clothes that wonder the nights while we sleep. Some of them take the life of
criminal activity just to survive. They have lost all and even a padded jail
cell with three meals is better than sleeping on a street where people still
throw their trash. The shelters are overcrowded with no room for the weary
human cast-away. Yet so many have lost all they knew at the hands of the society
in which we all live. Very few recover.
While doing a comparison, in history, why has there been so little
change in 498 years? In the 1700s we Americans wanted to be different than the
suppressed society of England, yet are we? Have we not learned anything from History?
Think about this. Who would you allow at your dinner table?
Would you allow a worn, tattered, man who had been wandering for years? His
beard is not kept; he has no shoes just old repurposed sandals. His clothes are
old leather and cloth. (Or) Would you allow a well presented man in a suit; he
is clean, very well manicured, and extremely sweet at first meeting? He has
designer shoes and a brief case.
Both men have wonderful wisdom. One man labors and the other
labors not. Who would you allow in the place of honor at your table to sit to
your right? You will have to read the remainder of this blog to figure out who
the two men were that were in my thoughts.
We have to make a change. In the US alone there are more
than 100 million people over the age of 18 estimated in 2013. In January of
2013, there are at least 600,000 people homeless. That means that it may be possible to rise in
one day $99,400,000 to fix the problem without government intervention. That
means everyone who is not homeless must give $1.
WHY IS THERE A PROBLEM? I fail to understand. Until this
problem is fixed, our nation will never be at peace with itself. I am thinking
of how this can be done. So many give
tithes to their churches. Tithes equate to a tenth. $1 is far less than a
tithe. What else to you do as a Christian?
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he
will repay him for his deed.
Proverbs 19:17
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one
who would borrow from you. Matthew 5:42
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares
his bread with the poor.
Proverbs 22:9
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give
a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your
relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be
repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the
blind, and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you. For you will be
repaid at the resurrection of the just.
Luke 14: 12-14.
The two men at my door for dinner is John the Baptist and
Donald Trump. I chose John the Baptist. Who did you chose? Jesus is always an
honor guest in my home.
Keep in prayer each other.
God bless you all and keep you
safely in His arms.
[1] Thomas More. Utopia.
Cassell & Company. England: 1901.
Edited Henry Morley: Project Gutenberg ebook. 22nd April 2005.
(accessed 18th May 2014) http://www.archive.org
[2] Henry David Thoreau. Walden and Civil Disobedience. Barnes and Noble. New York: 2005.
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