Be pleasant, As American do not extend my personal rights to cover my neighbor’s freedom. It has never been about self, that is what our pride makes it. It is always about how we determine to get along together such that we do not bring the agents of law into our community. We have collectively determined not to display the behaviors of knowledge and experience with each other leading to conflicts that just don’t happen when respect is the currency of each day.

Seeing this construct we are immediately forced, though we adamantly avoid it to analyze our behaviors and reflect as to their compliance with this higher level of societal norms. We are instantly brought to understanding that we are inconsistent with people who say that they know Christ Jesus, as our fruits fail the test He stated would determine understanding. When I know a man cannot engender or bring forth the fruits of the Holy Spirit, I immediately give way to a fool wielding a broadsword in close proximity to people around him.

We are not freed simply to choose however we treat people is acceptable even when the bulk of the society has become so contorted that they believe themselves the center of the universe. Yes, I may to an extent express my unique view and desires to a point, but even when others agree that anarchy is the norm, there remains the ingrained dilemma that all men know God and know that there are absolutes with regard to right and wrong or good and evil. In fact my continued concentration upon doing a I want, or doing it my way, presents itself as the gateway to social discord, but these must be done in a manner of national agreement. For if the wicked are left in command then all societal guidelines of community maintenance are broken by the constant attempts to have what I want be the center of governance.

God help U.S. when those we have elected cease to follow the social understanding of absolute norms. That is where we were just last year. Now, we are in the throws of carving out the path to a new declaration of independence from this unbridled pursuit of self gratification. Like it or not the way forward is only found in division of those ideals and decision to conform our own behavior to absolutes, objective truths that may only come from the Voice of God in our lives or to abandon all parameters to pursue what You and I want 24/7 which defaults to the governance of who is in power over the vulnerable. Do it until you are satisfied means that those with the power to enforce their desired pathway will always prevail. This denies the innocent and the vulnerable. A society may therefore be known by their fruit of how they treat those who have no power against them.

We ceased being a nation of men governed by God’s objective truths when we forgot to protect the innocent. There is no child that should have to find the demons of this world and the mind of man to find a safe space to live and grow. I do not care what I want when it infringes upon this sacrosanct ideal. In fact that which I desire may be the sole impediment to achieving the life that we proclaimed when joined in God’s provision of a nation made to bring Glory to His name. Our problem has always been one of doing those things we know to be right and aligning our lives with the Fruits of God’s Spirit or serving any other catalyst most often the desires of the heart and flesh. To have safe society we must first protect the needs of the vulnerable and innocent, denying self before we can walk in vigilance toward nation through which we may rejoice.