Liberty

As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again with one or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast in the liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free.
John Wesley, 1784

I think sometimes I look too negatively at our position here in America. I look around at all the corruption, greed, sex, and lust of fleshly desires and dysfunction and I just am overwhelmed with grief and a sense of inability to do anything about it.

But John Wesley has some aptly opened my eyes that at the same time the liberty in America is available to walk away from God, THERE IS ALSO the same aptitude to walk toward Christ with full liberty! We still have such a great opportunity to pursue God with no holds barred from the government and with such freedom within our current religious climate. God is open for the common man to pursue with all he has. We have the Word we can read from, we have no interpreters like they used to have. We have a personal relationship to pray/talk with God. All throughout history nations have been under authority and dictated on how church and religion would function. There was a state religion and laws and bylaws and non-Biblical ideas intertwined. We have the oppotunity to restore the Biblical church. We have the opporunity to live like the Word shows us.

So let us be thankful for liberty that God has so blessed us with in this land. The liberty we have to pursue Him no holds barred. There is so much opportunity for us to effect this nation, this world, this generation. It starts with us. It starts with you and me. Let us not waste this liberty we have on temporary and fleeting pursuits. Let us fulfill Christ's prayer, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven! Let's make it happen. Let's light up this dark country and remind them of the history we have so quickly forgotten and the oppotunity in our hands.