I believe that America is in dire straits, and we need to ‘reclaim’ our Freedom and our Land.    I see a biblical principle involved, and as we wade through this, I will attempt to identify several things.   I hope to identify our condition, how or why we got into this mess, and what, if anything, we can do to rectify it. 

If you do not agree that we need ‘restoration,’ what I have to say will not resonate with you.   However, if you see what many of us see and realize that our liberties and freedoms are being systematically stripped from us and that our moral moorings as a nation have drifted, it may be motivational and inspirational.   If you want to see America restored to our foundational base and be the Republic our Founders envisioned, I invite you to take this journey with me.

I do not believe we can achieve or receive the ‘fullness’ our Founders envisioned, and God desires individually or nationally, UNTIL…   Until?  Yes, until we have followed His directives and placed ourselves in ‘right standing’ with Him, His Word, each other, and the Constitution.  I believe strongly in the biblical principle that ‘preparation always precedes blessing.’

In 2 Kings 3:16, we see the prophet Elisha’s instruction for King Jehoshaphat as they prepared for battle with Moab. He said, “Make this valley full of ditches.”   Israel complied, and the next morning, they realized that water had filled the ditches. 

Moab awoke, and the glistening of the morning sun made the water appear as blood. They assumed that Israel had turned on each other and ran to the battlefield to collect the spoils of victory. The result was a complete slaughter of Moab and a victory for Israel. I use this example to demonstrate that He provides when we do what God says.

Another example is in 2 Kings 4, where the prophet instructed the poor widow to borrow vessels.   She filled the house with borrowed utensils, and the prophet poured them full UNTIL there were no more vessels.   The only limitation to her miracle was the number of vessels she had borrowed.   Her obedience or preparation enabled the man of God and God to do a miracle.  God will never go beyond our capacity or our obedience. 

In Matthew 12, Jesus identified some of the evidence of God’s Kingdom and Restoration, which can be applied to America and the restoration of our Freedoms and Liberties. He called them ‘works.’  He included the casting out demons (trespassers on the promise) and healing the sick. He provided the reality that IF we follow God’s directives and seek to be realigned with His principles, purposes, and person, He will fulfill His promises. 

Our founding fathers believed that America came into existence because of the providence of God.  Many Americans today believe we became what we became through our own strength and ability.   Some believe we achieved greatness as a nation on the backs of the less fortunate.  They believe our beginning was corrupt, must be atoned for, and transformed.  Even with our errors and sins in our beginning, we originated for God’s purposes to be a catalyst to advance the Kingdom of God on this earth. 

In Matthew 12:25, our LORD declares something incredibly important spiritually, personally, and nationally.  He said, “Any kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.”  We are divided in America beyond anything I ever envisioned could become a reality.  The hate and vitriol that is hurled about vehemently is eroding the foundation of our Republic and will be our destruction if not quelled.

We have generational hate being perpetuated.  We have the systematic engendering of a brand of hate that hides under the cloak of ‘principle’ and justifies itself by attacking everyone and everything that disagrees. 

Some believe they are constitutionalists and even conservative political idealists who have allowed personal animus toward particular candidates to cause them to join forces with those who would otherwise be deemed enemies.  I guess the philosophy “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is applicable.  The result is division, estrangement, and the erosion of many freedoms and liberties.  The result will be the destruction of the Republic.

In Matthew 12:29, the Lord Jesus brings to light a reality that could easily be applied to our American predicament.  Jesus identified the strongman, and in Luke 11, He expands that and identifies that this ‘strongman’ is fully armed.  The defeat of that strongman requires one who is stronger to come in, disarm him, and reclaim what has been taken. 

In America, the nefarious seekers of ‘fundamental transformation’ have divided us and weakened the fabric of our republic.  They have pitted us against each other when the objective of many on both sides of the equation is the best good for America. 

The problem lies in not understanding the result.  The problem lies in forgetting how we came into being and distorting the intent of our Founders, as declared in the Declaration of Independence.  We have lost sight of our Creator, His Holiness, and His Provisions for us and have become selfish and self-centered.  In many cases, we have lost sight of America and only viewed politics through the prism of our bias and personal ambitions.

Our Founding Fathers declared they believed in self-evident truths.  Today’s academia and some political ideologues do not believe in ‘self-evident truth.’  They do not believe in a Creator.  When we eliminate the Creator, we also render the idea of inalienable rights ineffective, if not null and void. 

I had a person who does not believe in God insist that they believe in inalienable rights.  I asked, “Where did those rights originate?”  He could not answer other than admitting that they were either the product of man’s desire or the gift of the government.  Yet, he claimed to believe in limited government, the Constitution, and conservatism.  I am unable to connect those dots because, as our Founders declared, ‘the Creator endows these rights upon man.’

I believe that God enabled America to become a Free Republic for a purpose that extends far beyond our personal or national prosperity. If that were the purpose of our existence, then we would be prime candidates for greed, envy, covetousness, jealousy, ambition, and hate to prevail and destroy us. 

Without a moral framework and mooring to which we attach our reason for existence, we will not seek the best good of everyone but our own interests.  I have heard all my life, “You have to look out for number one because no one else will.”  That is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and contrary to the declarations of our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence, and the writings of our Founding Fathers. 

They believed that among those endowed rights was the Right to Life.  What is Life?  That would take a book to detail, but it is more than just breathing.  It is more than possessions.  It is the ability to pursue your purpose without undue restrictions and regulation by a centralized power structure that seeks to dominate. 

There was also the right to Liberty.  What is Liberty?  It is more than not being in jail, prison, or chains.  The word carries the idea of Freedom, which must begin on the inside.  If I am Free on the Inside, then even if I were in chains, I remain Free.  Government cannot give me that; it comes as an endowment of our Creator. 

Then, the right to Pursue Happiness.  What is Happiness?  I contend you cannot have that quality of life unless you are allowed to live free. I have discussed the Founders’ vision and even identified some of our conditions in the loss of liberty and freedom. However, I have not begun to address the How, the Why, and the Remedy.

I believe those things can be encapsulated because we have been deceived into believing that a benevolent elitist governmental hierarchy can provide those things for us or is charged with doing so. Ignorance is the first step toward enslavement politically, and we have become ignorant of the devil’s devices politically. 

We have allowed politicians to oversee the government without giving the constitutionally mandated oversight. Our ignorance of what they have and are doing, coupled with our ignorance of our authority and power, has enabled the devious to become a ‘strongman’ taking over our house (America).

We can see Restoration, but only if we return to the moral moorings of our beginning.  We can see Restoration, but only if we invest ourselves in the oversight of government and cease to allow the politicians to manage the politics of the nation. 

We can see Restoration if we stop allowing the division promoted by the devious to thrive. If we desire a restored America, then we need to take note of all politicians and parties that seek to weaken our Constitution, infringe upon our inalienable rights, and force us to comply with edicts that violate our conscience, conviction, and faith.

I believe all who believe in God must become intercessors and, as intercessors, do the following:  Repent for our own sins and failures.  Repent for the sins of the nation.  Recognize what Jesus did for us at Calvary.  Recognize that the devil wants America destroyed.  Recognize that the devil has no power over us or America UNLESS he finds some legal ground within which he can operate.  Therefore, Repentance is Required, even if we are not personally guilty of those sins that give the enemy of Freedom opportunity.

I see a deeply divided and troubled America, and that causes me great sadness and concern.  I know in my heart of hearts that if we continue this hate-filled decline into degeneracy and division, we will witness the end of the Republic.  I believe that to support an ideology, candidate, or political agenda that weakens our moral moorings, infringes upon our liberties and rights, and denies the right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness is to abet and enable our own destruction. 

Therefore, I ask that you consider becoming an intercessor and pray for America.  I ask that you become involved in the process.  I ask that you carefully consider every candidate and governmental proposal, considering how it affects our Freedom, Liberty, and the ability to pursue Happiness.  Then, VOTE!

God bless you, and God bless America!

As I contemplated this blog post, I wondered, “What did the founding fathers think of patriotism?” To fully answer that question, we need to consider some quotes from the founders: 

George Washington – “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

That is almost prophetic when applied to our current day and age.    As the founders, we are faced with that very choice.  As a natural-born American citizen, a Vietnam veteran, and one who loves the Lord and this country, I choose to be free.   I hope that the majority of Americans and in sufficient numbers in all the key states will allow us to restore the hope of liberty and freedom each November.

Benjamin Franklin – “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

That was a warning shot fired across the bow of every generation by one of the brilliant founders of this great nation.   He, as did the others, realized that the citizenry would have to be involved in their government, or it would run wild and consume them.   We are at a crossroads in this country, and which road is taken depends on what we do in every future Presidential and Congressional election each November.

Thomas Jefferson – “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

It is profoundly provoking to realize how well they understood the difficulty of keeping the Republic Free!   They believed it to be absolute tyranny for the government to “steal” from the people through legislation, regulation, and over-taxation. 

They realized what a gift they were presenting to future generations that God had bestowed on them and this nation.  They worked and fought fervently to establish this nation.  Once established, they produced a constitution and Bill of Rights both were designed to keep the Federal Government small.  The objective was to enable the people to maintain their God-given rights and liberty. 

We are in grave danger of losing that today.  I keep asking, “What is your freedom and liberty worth to you?”  “How much is a Free America worth?”  “What are you willing to give or do to keep her free?”  

Our vote each November answers those questions to a degree, but beware, we will continue to be faced with a far more involved decision, not of your making.  There are those who would destroy this nation and wipe out certain segments of the population in doing so.  We are truly living in what the Bible has described as “perilous times.” 

May God help us and bless America and every legal citizen.

I contend that a broken government produces broken people.  The latest data for 2023 indicates that there were 22.2 million households in the United States of America on food stamps.  I said households, not people.   According to those same statistics, this equates to 41.9 million people.

The number of households per SNAP records is 22,292,478, up from 21,620,718 in 2022 and almost 672,000 over the previous year. If the calculation were an average of 4 per household, that would mean that 89,169,912 people are on food stamps or 38% of the United States population. 

The calculation of the actual number of persons is moot when you realize that at least 20% of American households are on food stamps.  Yet, the Leftists insist that things are rosy and getting better all the time.  They declare that we have turned the corner and are experiencing a robust recovery.   I suggest that you tell that to the massive numbers who are out of work and the huge number who are no longer looking for work.    The Biden recovery was a myth.  Hopefully, the Trump administration will turn this around.

With the invasion of illegals that occurred under the Biden administration, we are facing some dramatic needs.   Healthcare, education, the economy, and public safety are concerns that must be addressed.  

We have a Broken Government, and Broken Governments result in Broken Societies or Broken People.   The inane and insane policies of liberalism, progressivism, and socialism have dashed the hopes of people to achieve their lifelong dreams economically. 

These failed policies are moving us into a state where we are just a short step from looting and lawlessness.  I often wonder if that is really what those on the left want or if it is their ‘thoughtless’ attempt to solidify a voting base so they can remain in power and protect their Elite Status.  I would guess that it is probably both to some degree.

One study or report stated that we have more people on food stamps in America than the population of Spain and that the cost of food stamp fraud has more than doubled in the past decade. 

It was no surprise when extremist groups such as Acorn and others were actually teaching people how to ‘scam the system’ and ensure that they live quite nicely without having to work for it.  Please hear me; I know that some people are receiving food stamps that would work if they could find work, but they are not the ones I’m referring to. 

I have no problem helping someone truly needy and would provide for their own if they could.  I do have a problem with the professional welfare recipient and the lazy.  Those need to be addressed with tough love.

We have allowed the federal government and often the state government to replace our individual human kindness and the benevolence of the church and community. Now that we have so many federal entitlement programs, individuals no longer feel compelled to help the poor and needy.   

Too often, the churches and communities have pulled back as well. Instead of helping someone get back on their feet, we have a program encouraging people to remain on their derriere. Not that long ago, in my youth, there were people on welfare, but those were few compared to what is happening today. 

Individuals, local communities, and the church were key participants in assisting those with needs.  If a person proved to be lazy, they were allowed to be lazy and hungry.   Some will say, “Roy, where is your compassion?”   In the Bible, we are told that if a man will not work, he should not eat and that a man who will not provide for his own household is worse than an infidel. 

My compassion is following the compassion that God has expressed.  I believe we do people more harm than good when we facilitate killing their dreams and initiative.  I think that we relegate them to a type of slavery that is as bad as physical slavery and, in some ways, maybe worse.  Understand, I consider physical slavery contemptuous and reprehensible, so you must know what I think of governmental slavery.

If we want to recover our nation, restore our republic, and truly help people, we will un-elect every liberal and RINO that walks the halls of Congress or the Whitehouse.  We will endeavor to send people who genuinely care about the Constitution and America to those halls. 

If a legislator or President honors the rule of law and the constitution and demonstrates a genuine concern for America and Americans, then I believe they will demonstrate genuine compassion, not fictitious pseudo-compassion.   They will labor to produce a smaller and limited government that allows people the opportunity to achieve their dreams and goals rather than taxing and regulating them into governmental slavery.

If you agree with me, let us burn up the phone lines, in-boxes, and fax lines of your elected official and become involved in the political process with your money, labor, and vote.  I also seek all who pray to become intercessors for this nation.  America needs you like never before.

God bless you, and God bless America!

We call it Public Service, and we call them Public Servants, but when it comes to politicians, those terms are oxymorons.   When I see millions spent seeking to be elected to a political office that pays little compared to what is being spent, I have to ask what the motive is. 

In today’s world, virtually any elective office is an incredibly costly perch to attain, and often, a significant portion of what is spent comes from the individual’s personal bank account.   The Texas Senate Race in 2024 between Ted Cruz and Collin Allred was the most expensive ever!   The salary in a six-year term will never reach that amount, so what motivates an individual to seek an office that is so personally costly financially?   Is it public service, the desire to be a public servant, political power, ego, or graft?

When this Republic was founded, virtually all the founding fathers viewed elected office as a public service.   They considered themselves public servants, not politicians.   The very idea of a professional political elite class was offensive to them.   When they sought office, it was out of a desire to serve the interests of the public, defend the Constitution, and perpetuate the Republic, not amass personal fortune and power.  They were diverse in their views, backgrounds, and personalities but held a common ideal that made them unique and admired.

Today, virtually every individual who goes to Washington, DC, leaves office with a dramatically increased personal financial bottom line.  They build networks of contacts that afford them access to enormous wealth.  This enables them to wield incredible power while in office and afterward.   

Most of them campaign on a platform of “service” and “defending the rights” of We the People, but upon arrival at the Capitol, they seem to forget those pledges and promises soon and serve their interests and those of the special interest groups and bundlers that filled their campaign war chests rather than those of the public they were elected to serve. 

Their ethics and principles seem as fluid as the water in a flowing river.  Their principles and ethics rise and fall like the stock market.  It depends upon the electoral cycle’s timeframe and the opportunities to become more established as a political power broker.    

Most have an agenda that is often kept well hidden during the campaign but surfaces in bits and pieces once elected to office.  Many, once in office, seek to remain in office as long as possible, and even if they sought office initially with the desire to perform “public service” rapidly, they evolve into “professional politicians.”

When electing people to public office, I believe it would serve us well to ask, “What did the founding fathers really want for America?”  Additionally, we should ask, “What do the current politicians want for America?”    

The Founding Fathers were an incredibly diverse group with a unified goal and objective: American Liberty! They believed that the citizens should have a say in their government and that government “only” derives its power from the consent of those governed.  That is in stark contrast to the view of politicians today, as we see by their actions, agendas, and policies, regardless of what they say with their words and campaign rhetoric.  One only has to read the opening words of the Declaration of Independence to understand their hearts.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

The founders understood that our rights were not governmentally granted but came from God Himself.  They understood that government should be limited and that the real power should be vested in the people, then the individual states, and then, in a limited scope, the central government. 

Today, we see the results of the slow erosion of that ideology into the massive Federal Government and are seeing it continually expanded.  Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and those of their ilk envision a Federal Government that is all-encompassing and powerful, with the people being “servants of the government” rather than the original design of the “government being a service to the people.”

We did not arrive at this juncture or condition overnight or in a decade or two and will not revert to the Constitutional Republic of the founders in a short span.  If it ever happens, it will take generations.  However, if we allow the Leftists to regain the White House and control of Congress, we relinquish all hope of restoration.

The Leftist’s agenda will be advanced with vigor, the Constitution abandoned, and the ideology of liberalism and progressivism will destroy us.  The will of the people will be ignored.   If the Left regains power, they will throw off all restraint and attempt to install their part as a permanent fixture in the White House and Congress.  

I believe that God worked to enable the founding fathers to frame the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights to establish a nation where people could freely pursue His purposes.  America has been a launching pad for incredible innovations, inspiration, and missionary efforts for a very long time.  Still, it is in grave danger of becoming a very dark place spiritually, morally, and economically. 

I will continue to make an impassioned plea for anyone and everyone to diligently and fervently cry out to God for guidance individually and for the nation.   I urge everyone to do due diligence in examining the records of all political candidates.   Do not just listen to what they say but examine how they say it and what they have done, are doing, and might do. 

If we want to keep a Free Republic, we must restore accountability to every elected office and limit the time any individual can hold those offices.  That alone will not stop all the graft and corruption, but it will go a long way to restoring the power to where the founders envisioned it, in the hands of the people, the legal citizens of the United States of America.

How we vote is our right and prerogative, but failure to vote allows unscrupulous people to manipulate and control the welfare and well-being of the nation.  If we all examine the candidates and their records and determine to hold them accountable, we will have hope of seeing America restored!  Therefore, I ask that you become involved in the political process and, at a minimum, vote in each political cycle!

May God bless you, and may God bless America!

As I have reviewed the past four years, no, for the past 50 years, I have to wonder and ask, “Has the systematic dismantling of the American way of life been done with ‘malice and forethought’ or just out of ignorance?”  I do not think I really have to attempt to answer that question, but I do want to look at it briefly and examine a couple of poignant points regarding what has been happening in America.  I should backdate my examination to over 100 years because that is how long this has taken place.

During WWI and especially WWII, America came together like at no other time in American history save the time of the Revolutionary War.  I would contend that it might have been a stronger unification than even then.    We had a real threat poised to strike, and people from both sides of the aisle came together ‘unified’ to Stop that Threat before it destroyed our Freedom and the Freedom of the rest of the world. 

Since then, we have not had a unified effort in War or on any political front.  We fought in Korea, but there was no genuine commitment to win the war, only to accomplish an objective short of winning.   In Vietnam, there was absolutely no effort to win the war by those in power truly. 

I fought in Vietnam, and most of us realized soon after being ‘in country’ that this was a war that could be won but a war that the powers that be had no intention of winning.   That is the sticking point for me concerning Vietnam.   It is not that we went, whether we actually should have or not.  It is the fact that politicians, world bankers, and the power players in the world were willing to offer up the lives of thousands of young men for some other reason than FREEDOM!  

Please do not misunderstand me; if I had it to do over and were called upon by my country to go to war, I would go!   I would not “burn my draft card” or “run to Canada.”   I would report to the induction center and prepare to go.  Not because I am a blind, obedient sheep just following orders, but I would go in the hope that we would be able to somehow secure Freedom and Liberty for some and keep our homeland safe. 

When I study the agenda of the Fabian Socialists, who have operated in Europe and even this nation for more than 100 years, I am continually amazed at how patient, dedicated, systematic, and organized they have been in their efforts.  They had and have an objective that is World Dominance, as do the followers of Islam and other groups. 

They view nations such as America and our Free Enterprise System as a direct threat and obstacle to achieving their objectives, so America must be dismantled in their view.   When you consider that people like George Soros, Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky, George Bernard Shaw, Andy Stern, Richard Trumpka, John Podesta, Oscar Wilde, Muhammad Ali, Jinnah, British Labor Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown, Annie Besant, Beatrice & Sidney Webb, H.G. Wells, and many others have been and are a part of this Society you realize how deep this runs and how long it has been going on.  

In a letter to American novelist Henry James in 1909, George Bernard Shaw said: “I, as a Socialist, have had to preach, as much as anyone, the enormous power of the environment.  We can change it; we must change it; there is absolutely no other sense in life than the task of changing it.  What is the use of writing plays?  What is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally molds chaos itself into a race of gods.”

The Stated Goals of the Fabian Socialist are:

• A strong, centralized government.
• A powerful executive at the expense of Congress and the judicial.
• A government-controlled banking, credit, and securities exchange.
• Government control over employment.
• Unemployment insurance and old age pensions controlled by the government.
• Implementation of universal medical care, food, and universal housing programs.
• Access to unlimited government borrowing.
• A managed monetary system.
• Government control over foreign aid.
• Government control over all natural energy sources, transportation, and agricultural production.
• Government regulation of labor. 

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• Heavy progressive taxation.

They have been working to infiltrate our educational system, and now we have scores of professors on their fold.  They have people like Bill Ayers, Cass Sunstein, Derrick Bell, Ellen Lewin (a University of Iowa professor who used the “F” word towards Republicans), Arne Duncan, and thousands more like them.  They have transformed our educational system into nothing more than a factory of “brain-washed, liberal-thinking followers” of the Fabian model of society.   

We must not lose sight of the reality that it is not just at the higher education levels but has filtered all the way down to elementary schools.  America, if we do not get control of Education and educate our Children at home, we are doomed.  I am not saying we all have to ‘home school’ them, but we must ‘school them’ at home!

The Liberals, the socialists, the radical Islamists, and groups of that ilk have systematically, diligently, devotedly, and with dogged determination pursued their objective with amazing patience.   On the other hand, those of us who value our Freedom, love this nation, respect our Constitution, and follow God have not been so diligent.   We have lost battle after battle because we “failed to see the direct impact” upon our personal lives and ignored what was happening.    That is to our shame and must change!

If we love America, love God, respect the Constitution, and believe in the principles upon which this nation was founded, we must become involved at every level possible and with everything possible.   I do not have all the answers, but I know we cannot quit.  We dare not grow weary no matter how hopeless our cause may seem at any given moment. 

May God help us and save this nation!

Someday is the land of illusions and broken dreams!   Recently, I was drawn into a political conversation with a group of people locally.  One of the individuals was ranting about how destructive the Obama and Biden administrations were for this country.   The discussion included how they had trashed the Constitution, weaponized government, and ignored the rule of law.

One of the people waxed eloquent for about five minutes and then said something that stuck profoundly.  It has traversed the corridors of my mind for days.  He said, “SOMEDAY those who love America and our Constitutional Freedom will wake up, and we will retake both Houses of Congress, the White House, and gain a couple of appointments to the Supreme Court and will once again see the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America again. 

That resonated with me and caused me to think about Someday!   I opened my mouth to respond but could only manage, “I hope so!”  I excused myself and headed for another appointment but thought about what he had said throughout the day – SOMEDAY!

Alan Jackson sings a country song entitled “Someday.”   It is a story about a man pleading with his wife not to leave him.  He promises to do anything to fix the problem and that someday, he’ll get his life straight.   

She responded that it was too late.  She declared that she could no longer wait because sometimes, someday, it never comes.   She said that all she ever wanted to do was love him.  Somewhere deep inside, she still did, but it was time she stopped believing because she realized she was never going to see a change in him and to his repeated plea that SOMEDAY he’d get his life straight, she said, “I can’t wait, ‘Cause sometimes someday just never comes.”   That fits where we are today on so many fronts.

SOMEDAY is an illusional land filled with shattered dreams and broken promises.  It is a land that signifies a lack of priority and commitment.  It is a land that postpones until a fictional future time the resolution of the problem and presents a false hope and promise that can never be kept.  Too many live there, and the results are seldom good!

SPIRITUALLY:

I’ve had people tell me that “Someday,” I am going to turn my life around and live for God wholeheartedly.  I have a standard response to that statement: “SOMEDAY suggests that as of this moment, it is not important enough for you to take action and therefore affords you an excuse to continue in your way of living that by your own confession is “missing the mark.” 

It suggests that God is not important enough for you to address the real issues in your life and that you love the pleasures of sin more than you desire a “relationship with God.”   I have found that nobody can “get their life straight” on their own.  Only as we come to God in repentance and turn our hearts over to Him, allowing His will to become our will, our lives turn from darkness to God’s marvelous light. 

SOMEDAY, spirituality just never seems to come!   So, if you are saying “Someday” to God, the sad reality is that you will likely come to the end of your days and find that you are still saying SOMEDAY, and it will be TOO LATE!

RELATIONALLY:

I’ve had people tell me that “Someday,” they were going to get their relationship straightened out, and my answer is almost exactly the same.  “Until you determine that the relationship is a top priority to you and you are willing to address the root causes of the problem, modify your behavior, learn to communicate and listen, and make the other person’s wholeness, happiness, and fulfillment a top priority in your life SOMEDAYwill never come, and you will go from broken relationship to broken relationship and wonder why you can’t find a good man or woman.”  

The SOMEDAY Syndrome is your problem, not the other person.  They may and likely do have problems, but the ball is in your court to turn SOMEDAY into TODAY.

ECONOMICALLY:

I’ve had people tell me that “Someday,” when they get a few more bills paid, get another promotion, etc., they are going to work on their retirement plans and their family’s financial security.  Yet it seems that something always crops up to prevent that person from taking any positive proactive action to secure a future financially for their family and themselves. 

SOMEDAY suggests that they are living in an illusional world in which things magically take care of themselves.  They believe that they have an endless amount of time to get things done.   Most of them find that they come to retirement years unprepared and live in regret.   Frequently, they are relegated to dependence on other people or the government to survive.   

They could have done something, even if it were something small, to help, and the small, over time, become much more significant than you dream.   I have given demonstrations to the twenty-something crowd about their retirement plans.  I have carefully detailed and shown them how, over the next 20-25 years, their meager funds deposited would grow exponentially.   I was elated when the light came on for some of them, and they turned SOMEDAY into TODAY and acted.

POLITICALLY:

We are in a crisis in America and have seen our nation systematically dismantled from within.   It has not been an outside enemy that has destroyed, usurped our Constitution, or stripped us of our freedoms and liberties.  It is the US!  I say “US” because our government is doing it, and that government is elected by us, so the buck stops with US! 

I hear people like the aforementioned individual saying, “SOMEDAY,” and I cringe, wondering how we can afford to wait for a day that will likely never come. 

• How can we live in an illusion and settle for broken dreams and broken promises? 
• How can we resign ourselves to SOMEDAY when action is demanded TODAY?  

If not now, when?  I do not have all the answers and sometimes wonder if I have any at all except intercessory prayer. 

• I know how futile it seems to continually contact elected representatives and have them virtually ignore your resistance and objections.  
• I know how futile it is to see those who are supposed to love liberty and freedom abdicate their responsibilities and demonstrate an unwillingness to Stand Firm against the onslaught of Tyranny (soft or hard) in our land.  
• I know how frustrating it is to see rampant Voter Fraud and have a Justice Department that not only turns its head the other way but actually seems to encourage it. 
• I know how frustrating it is to hear the President of the United States of America belittle this nation and drive wedges like almost no President before between races and classes of people, as well as the two major political parties. 
• I know the frustration, but we do not have SOMEDAY.  We only have TODAY! 

Therefore, I call on each one to pray more fervently than ever and work harder than ever.  Some of you or we will have to enter the political arena and run for office.   It is time to return to God and make Him the centerpiece of our lives. The time Is NOW for Action, not SOMEDAY!   Someday may never come!

May God bless you, and may God bless America!

What would happen if Congress debated everything constitutionally in Washington, D.C.?   There was a time when the first question that members of Congress asked when any piece of legislation came to them was, “Is it Constitutional?”  

That question is virtually never asked anymore.   The Founding Fathers had incredible insight and were often prophetic in their writings about the dangers of an overreaching Federal Government that grew too large and powerful. 

• They understood that any government becomes easy prey for tyranny when it garners great wealth and power. 
• They understood that as the Federal Centralized Government grew in size and power, it would likely become Tyrannical.  

Therefore, they were careful to place checks and balances to provide tools to prevent it from happening.    For about one hundred fifty years in our nation’s history, those elected to Congress allowed those checks and balances to function without impediment.   They often rejected bills, even ones they would like to see passed, because they did not believe the Constitution allowed them to enact them.  That never happens today!

Our Founding Fathers understood that any leader, whether a king or an elected president, who thinks he is a king can become a tyrant and likely will become a tyrant unless his powers are carefully limited.  They realized that although local governments were capable of tyranny, there was much less risk because they were much closer to the people, which forced them to be more responsive to the needs and desires of the populace they governed. 

Our Founders dealt with tyranny firsthand.   We endured eight years of tyrannical governance by Barack Obama and four years under Joe Biden.   Those two seemed to believe their own rhetoric and were such ideologues that they considered themselves destined to be Judges, Juries, and Executioners over America. 

In my opinion, when any president begins to act as though they believe whatever they desire to do should go unquestioned and anyone that challenges him should be and must be crushed without mercy, we are in trouble.    You may say, “Roy, that is a bit harsh, don’t you think?”  But I would challenge you to view actions and policies over the past four years and how they will impact the future.

When the Colonists rebelled against the British Crown, it was not just the specific abuses of the crown or taxation without representation, as is clearly evidenced in the Declaration of Independence and subsequent documents.   The American Revolution was a Total Rejection of the concept of an “Oppressive National Government.”  It was a rejection of a government that failed to recognize limits to its power and the right of the people to enjoy “local self-rule.”  

Therefore, our founders designed a very weak national government. In fact, it was so weak that the Articles of Confederation had to be amended in 1787 because the initial Articles limited the National Government so that it could not carry out its assigned responsibilities of National Defense and those specifically designated to it.

They gathered, wanting to limit the national government but to enable it to regulate “interstate trade.”   The 1787 convention in Philadelphia produced a new constitution that expanded the power of the federal government, but in a very limited fashion and within carefully defined and detailed boundaries. 

Under the new constitution, the federal government was given the power to exercise sovereign, supreme authority in specific areas in which only a national government can operate.   In All Other Areas, the states would retain sovereignty.   That is virtually gone today! 

If you scrutinize the Constitution, you will find that virtually every power granted to the federal government can be found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.  That article empowers Congress to tax and borrow money; regulate interstate and foreign trade; establish uniform laws for immigration and naturalization, bankruptcy, weights and measures, trademarks, copyrights, and patents; coin money and regulate its value; establish post offices and post roads; establish federal courts; provide for national defense; grant letters of marque and reprisal; declare war; and serve as the sole sovereign lawmaker over land purchased by the United States with the consent of the host state.  

If you study that, you will realize that the Constitution Does Not Grant Congress or the President the power to pass any and every piece of legislation that it decides is needed to make life “better” or “fair.” 

Additionally, it Does Not Grant Congress or the President the power to:

• Nationalize our Nation’s Healthcare System, Auto Industry, Banking, or any other industry.
• Create a cradle-to-grave entitlement or welfare system.
• Dictate to any American citizen where to go to the doctor and how to pay for it.
• Spread the Wealth.

Clearly, by the Constitution, Congress is Restricted from passing Any Law or Legislation in any area where it does not have specific power to do so.   That goes for the President and his Executive Fiats as well.  This is crystal clear in the Constitution, was clear to every delegate at the convention, and is spelled out in even more detail in the Tenth Amendment, which was ratified a short two years after the Constitution took effect. 

For approximately 150 years after the Constitution was ratified, those in each of the three branches of government respected and honored it. That changed with “The New Deal.”   Under F.D.R., the first question of “Is it Constitutional?” changed. Franklin D. Roosevelt set out and successfully expanded the federal government in an unprecedented scope, and it has never stopped growing since then and likely will never stop.

We endured presidents Obama and Biden, who ignored the Constitution.   Obama lamented that it was “too restrictive” because it specified limits on the federal government rather than granting it the power to do whatever it chose!   

If he had had his way and allowed one or two more appointments to the Supreme Court, our Constitution would have become nothing more than a historic document with no meaning or power.   In many ways, we have a Constitutional Crisis in America.  I also believe that many Americans are growing weary of allowing them to toss us a few “crumbs of bread,” so to speak.

I believe that it will take divine intervention to save this nation. Still, at the same time, I believe that you and I must do everything we can to stem the tide of the erosion of Constitutional limitations on the federal government.   I do not have all or possibly any answers except to Pray and Work to Elect People who will be Strict Constructionists of the Constitution.  The one thing that my core principles and beliefs will not allow is for me to quit!    

May God bless you, and may God bless America!