The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.
 
~ James Madison ~

 
Steeped as they were in world history, America’s founding fathers were well aware of the worst flaws in human nature; pride, ambition, envy, and greed. Accordingly, in establishing a constitutional republic, they sought to restrain government and limit man’s tendency to tyranny as much as possible.
 
They would be greatly dismayed then – although not shocked – by our present-day power-hungry ruling class. Despite years of appealing to our elected representatives for a return to limited government and fiscal responsibility, conservatives have been ignored, marginalized, even mocked by the elites in Washington and their mouthpieces in the mainstream media.

If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws.
 
~ Noah Webster ~

 
Our only real hope for recovering the representative government bequeathed to us then, is to turn back to America’s heavenly founding Father. As Dr. Michael Brown writes, it’s time to embrace the original source of righteousness and true freedom: God’s Answer to the Moral Insanity of the World ~

I’m all for proper political involvement and righteous social action, and these do play a role in cultural transformation. But that role is small compared with the role played by a fresh outpouring of the Spirit on the church accompanied by the preaching of the cross and resurrection, the message that is foolishness in the eyes of man but represents the very power of God in action.
 
That alone is the path to a national awakening, and without the fearless and compassionate proclamation of the gospel, there will not be a holy counterculture revolution, a pushing back of the tide of godlessness.
 
So let us seek God earnestly with prayer and fasting, knowing that revival comes from Him, let us conduct ourselves as true followers of Jesus, not being conformed to the pattern of this world but being transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:1-2), and let us share the good news about our Savior whenever and wherever we can: Jesus paid for our sins on the cross, rising from the dead to declare His victory, and ascending to the right hand of the Father. He is the Lord of all.

AMEN!
 

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
 
~ Thomas Jefferson ~