Our Only Hope

 

A ship went down off the Irish coast and many lives were lost. An investigation revealed that the captain was a careful sailor, and the weather had not been severe enough to make the vessel veer from its course, thus leaving the charted shipping lane. So why did the ship go down? During the investigation, divers retrieved the ships compass and the subsequent inspection revealed that inside the compass box was found a tiny bit of steel. Apparently, the day before the wreck, a sailor was cleaning the compass. Using his pocket knife, he had unconsciously broken off its point under the edge of the box. That tiny bit of steel was enough to attract the magnetic needle which altered the compass slightly, resulting in the loss of the ship and most souls aboard.

Madeleine Murry O’Hare complained very loudly she didn’t want prayer in our schools and to quiet the noise we said, OK. Atheist groups protested the reading of the Bible and the display of the Ten Commandments in our schools. They said our children were being brought under the control of tyrannical thoughts and ideals of a God that is made-up in the minds of men. If taught to our children what the Bible says, do not kill, do not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself, it would restrict their horizons of inspiration, and we said, OK.  Pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Spock, said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. We said an expert must know what he is talking about, so we said, OK. Now we’re asking ourselves why our children and grand-children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill babies in the womb, strangers in their anger and themselves in their confusion of what life is all about. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we could figure it out. I think it has a lot to do with, “We Reap What We Sow!”

[Revelation 22:7-21] The Bible is our compass – spiritually and morally. It contains many warnings about altering its content and/or completely disregarding it all together. When mankind attempts to add or subtract from God’s Word, especially in the plan of salvation, we are risking the shipwreck of our faith, the faith of others and the loss of life – spiritually and physically. At a time when our society is increasingly casting aside the guiding influences of God’s inspired Word, as well as God himself, and when far too many of our elected officials are morally bankrupt and devoid of God’s Holy Spirit, perhaps “We the People” would be well-advised to carefully and prayerfully consider the following statements of past Presidents of our great nation as they reflected upon the sacred inspired Scriptures. Thomas Jefferson referred to the words and teachings of Jesus Christ as being “…the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.” John Quincy Adams: “I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise in the morning.” Andrew Jackson: “The Bible is the rock upon which our Republic rests.” Abraham Lincoln: “The Bible is the best gift that God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.” Calvin Coolidge: “In this Book will be found the solution to all the problems of the world.” Woodrow Wilson: “The Bible is the Word of Life. I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourself. When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the Word of God.” Herbert Hoover: “To read the Bible is a necessity of American Life.” Ronald Reagan said the Bible is our only hope of a secure nation.