Thank God for Freedom

May we take a moment from some of the side issues and clear our thoughts and humble our hearts and get down on our knees and simply, fervently, thank God for freedom and then get on our feet with a firm resolve to preserve it against all who secretly or openly would set it aside.

Thank God for freedom and for the Founding Fathers who reaffirmed to a new nation, an eternal, timeless truth: that the right of choice that the free agency of manis a God-given inalienable right, and is essential to the peace and growth and progress and salvation of the very soul.

This truth has been challenged again and again, and will yet be challenged again and again. It was challenged in the heavens before time began, by the brilliant but rebellious Lucifer. There was war in heaven for freedom. And anyone who seeks to enslave men in any sense, in mind, in spirit, in thought anyone who seeks to enslave the minds, the hearts, the spirits of men is essentially in league with Satan himself for “where he spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

Thank God for the Constitution of our country, which was brought into being “by the hands of wise men whom [the Lord God] raised up unto this very purpose.” Thank God for the promise that in this choice land, men “shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve” God.

Thank God for the right of choice, for the right to become whatever we can become in a free and provident land that, despite its imperfections, has proved to be more efficient for progress and human happiness than any society founded on the false philosophies that would seek to enslave the minds and souls of men.

God grant that we may repent wherever we have departed from the principles of freedom that we may preserve the right to fail and the incentive to succeed, and live, as did the Founding Fathers, knowing that there are no acceptable substitutes for freedom.