What Are You Sacrificing?

Heads up! It’s getting somewhat dangerous just to walk down the street or work in the yard, that is if you’re around any trees. No. not lightning silly, we haven’t seen any of that in a long time. The severity of the drought has some trees in a survival mode of “limb dropping”. Trees are simply rejecting large limbs literally cutting them off from water and nutrient until they snap off and fall. I’ve noticed a lot of the annual “new growth” on my pecan trees lying on the ground day after day, after being sacrificed to maintain life. Looks like no pecans this year. I can understand the plight of the trees, because rough times have forced me to sacrifice some things in my life in order to survive. It’s only natural I guess, because without sacrifice, life can crumble needlessly.
While President Harry S. Truman was in office, there was an attempt to assassinate him. Endeavoring to protect the President, one of his guards was slain. With deep solemnity and sadness, the President commented, “You can’t understand how a man feels when someone else dies for him.” I would think, after such an experience, that the remainder of life would become very special. After all, without the self-sacrifice of that guard, the President wouldn’t have had those remaining years. Each day would seem very precious, it having been purchased for him by the shedding of another man’s blood.
Recently I’ve been witness to “the other side of the coin”, so to speak. I don’t want to get into a rant here, but there are people in this country who are “cutting off their nose to spite their face”. Professed citizens of this great “Christian” country are out to remove their very heritage, the foundation of liberty, mainly the Christian religion, along with its ethics and moral reasoning, to produce a more “world friendly” society, and it’s slowly being accomplished. But, like the man who is mad at his wife, so he burns down the house, like an idiot, he didn’t realize he was also burning down his own house and all his beloved personal belongings. Removing God from our schools has made our school campuses war zones. Those brought up outside the Bible are now running (ruining) our country. Your grandchildren will probably become nothing more than government robots surviving day by day sacrificing more and more liberties just to survive.
[Deuteronomy 32: 1-47] There are those who argue that not all our forefathers were of the same belief when it comes to Christianity, but I don’t think anyone can prove to me that they weren’t all God fearing. A lot of sacrificing went on for “religious freedom” and the building of a nation for the freedom of religion. Take Christianity away, neutralize it, and the constitution of this country will default. The same is true with the Christian faith. Take away the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and there is no hope for ever being with God in paradise. Jesus sacrificed His life that we might live forever. Here on earth? NO! There is life after death, if not, why live in the first place? Oh yeh, the theory of evolution thing. Do our children know the meaning of theory? Their probably not taught that any more than their taught the real history of our country. Moses told Joshua, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you – they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.” One generation away from apostasy.