They just don't get it.....

December 29, 2006

How many times have we said to ourselves “My neighbor doesn’t get it". The Almighty knows that I have said this hundreds of times and will probably say it many times more. Of course he doesn't get it. Arthur Thompson said "no one teaches English 101 to someone who barely knows his ABCs". It might be that we start with too much "meat" for those that are not ready for it.General Douglas MacArthur referred to a dedication to duty as a glorious cause when in reference to the United States Army as “duty, honor, country.” Should that cause or dedication be less for us in regards to each state or city.

One day we will be held accountable — to our children, to their children, and most especially to our God — for what we have done to save us from evil. The answer had better not be: “Nothing.”

Yet we live, work, and play among a vast number of friends, family, and peers whose answer would be “Nothing.”

I have accepted it as my duty, as it should be yours, to try and change that — for their sakes.

I gave a speech a couple of months ago to some Jr. High students at a local institution and watched as their eyes glazed over when I spoke about the basic freedoms God delivered to us by our founding documents. Whoosh, it like a strong breeze, it flew over their heads. When I asked their teacher why they were so dazed, she explained they had not as yet studied the Constitution of the United States. So my talk was "Too much meat" and "not enough milk". Their knowledge of this country's basic history and faith was non existent.

Together both as teachers and as students we must teach ourselves as well as our brethren to understand that freedom is God's essential gift and that most, unlike ourselves, must learn slowly the principals that we have come to know as truth.

So we must return to the basics, the beginning, to the church and re-teach, make aware, of our country's proud heritage, history; to teach an understanding of the principles that founded this great country and we must do this with a faith and duty and never ending devotion, the same devotion that God gives to us.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Heb. 5:12