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The Bible states that fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It also states that being afraid is a sin: you have no faith in God’s plan.
The nation sits and waits in a fear manufactured by our government, media and lack of faith. A decision is expected tomorrow and the media would have us believe that one decision will generate nationwide protests and possibly riots. Is this your America?
Our “leaders” are doing nothing to alleviate the situation and the pResident tells the protest leaders in Ferguson to “stay the course”. And that is the problem: there should be only Americans working together to solve our problems, not divided special interests. Our government is using everything to divide us: race, economic status, educational status, immigration, sexual orientation, gender, age or political party. Any common ground such as the future of our children is not discussed. And we do have common ground.
So why is no one unifying us? Why are we being divided? We know the reason and yet no one speaks up. No church leaders, no political leaders and no black leaders in this case. At least none the media will show.
I do not believe that America has fallen so low that one incident would put the entire nation in fear. But I could be wrong. We will find out shortly. And we will also find out if this is the final crisis that the government will not allow to go to waste. Or we may find out that this nation is still a God fearing country.
David DeGerolamo
Mass distraction, that’s all.
Very, very well said. I would only add that the particular Hebrew translation of the word ‘fear’ with respect to God means ‘reverence or to revere’. It would follow, then, that the only thing we have to fear, as in not trusting in God, is fear itself.
The meaning of ” faith ” for me means, to put faith in Gods intentions. That means not the absence of fear, fear is a motivator, but the cognizance that no matter how bad it gets his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/11/23/my-open-letter-to-officer-darren-wilson/