To Arise Morally

Morality

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA

Eph 2:12
12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
NASU

Listen to the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson an American Poet, Essayist, who lived from 1803-1882, “The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.” As you can see one of the early problems of this newly found democracy was the steady creep away from Godly principle. We shouldn’t find that surprising because we mostly see this in our own lives don’t we. Aren’t we always fighting within our own souls to keep Christ the aim and center of our lives?

Socrates 469-399 BC, a Greek Philosopher of Athens had this to say of morality, “A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.” Spoken in today’s vernacular, it is to say this, “we justify our actions, by our feelings, and if it makes sense to us at the time, it is justifiable. Mistakes are often made in this way and the comment made afterwards is this, “Well, at the time it made sense.”

There is a great danger in this sinking and diminishing morality, for the deeper we sink the faster and easier it becomes to disappear into the depths of moral depravity, and the harder it is to rise again to reason. Bertrand Russell once said, “We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.” In other words we are saying one thing and living another, and the other life we are living, we really don’t want anyone to explain, and we chose to live in ignorance, rather than examine its direction.

This is an important subject, for we have made excuses for our departure away from where we began as a country and as Godly Citizens of this country. It is time to rise, it is time we as the people that began as “One Nation, Under God, re-centered our aim and direction so as to stop the moral sinking of who we are, and redefine ourselves as a people centered around the Word of God, with a Godly love and caring for one another as defined in the Word of God. We can love all people, but we cannot compromise with anyone what made us a Great Nation, and that is the principles and commandments of our “Great God”…God Bless.

Pastor William