tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855146211191927878.post4584214080292411524..comments2024-03-25T09:21:41.036-07:00Comments on BRIAN TODD BLOG: Pray for AmericaBrian Ray Toddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01242157834688837290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4855146211191927878.post-89580070189561208222015-09-07T15:04:29.406-07:002015-09-07T15:04:29.406-07:00"The factor which produces righteousness, pea..."The factor which produces righteousness, peace, order, prosperity, blessing and happiness in a land is not the form of government which exists. It is not the Constitution of the United States, or the Declaration of<br />Independence, which is preserving American liberty, even to the degree we still have it today. These are not our guarantees; they cannot protect us. We ought to take careful note of the motto of the new state of Hawaii<br />which was adopted in the days of the missionaries in 1820. While still a territory this motto was adopted: Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono which means, "The life of the land is preserved by righteousness." It is not the Constitution that preserves the United States. The Constitution can be twisted, manipulated, distorted, and made to apply in a variety of ways,<br />as the Supreme Court has shown us many times in our history. The Constitution will not protect us or preserve justice. What preserves justice? Righteousness! A people who are dedicated to the will and purpose of God, and who recognize the life of God in their midst. That is what preserves a land. That is the only thing that ever has or ever will. The lack of righteousness has been the reason for the overturn of civilization after civilization. Arnold Toynbee has counted some twenty-six civilizations that have come and gone. They failed because they were not built upon righteousness. Here, on almost the two hundredth birthday of the United States, it is well to remember that the thing that has preserved us as a nation to this time and has allowed what liberties we have or have ever had was not the wisdom of our forefathers, or the documents by which they set this nation in motion, but the faith that pervaded this land, the reality of righteousness in response to that faith, the life of God at work in this country. And that is the way to preserve it, by a return to righteousness." - Pastor Ray Steadman, April 1970<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com