A City on a Hill

I am an American and I live in a country founded by men who sought after God, and His laws and statutes. I am a descendent of this legacy and many others are or have been grafted into this country and this legacy. Now this legacy goes back even farther than our founding fathers, it goes back to those who really started this country…the puritans. I do not know what you have been taught concerning the puritans, whether they were stuck up Hippocrates, God-fearing men, or nothing at all, regardless of what you were taught the only people who can really tell you the truth about the puritans is the puritans themselves. How can we know for sure who the puritans were? The answer is simple; we read what they wrote. Baxter, Bradford, Bradstreet, and Winthrop were all puritans and they told their stories so we could know the truth. I have read these writers and let me tell you, they are men and women we are to look up to and model ourselves after if we want to be better Christians. In John Winthrop's Arrabella Covenant he claims that America is a city on a Hill ( taken from Mat 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.). Meaning this country is different and we are going to be an example to the world, the world will look to us for freedom and righteousness.

As far as I know almost every president we have had in the United States has made some kind of reference to America being "A city of a Hill" in their inaugural address, even President Obama gave mention to this in his speech. However, I would like to venture to ask the question, is America still a "City on a Hill"? We might claim to be a city on a hill in words, but are we a city on a hill in our deeds?

I believe that to some extent we still are a city on a hill, but if so we are a very dim light that is slowly flickering and fading. We could be so much more, but we choose not to. We have become like disobedient children and have turned from what we know to be right. I am not talking only about "the liberals", but to everyone! Think about it. If we have one a secularly raised child and a child raised in a Christian home, and the secular child goes off and does whatever he/she thinks is right because to them there are no consequences; and then the Christian child goes off and does whatever they like, knowing there will be consequences, which child is most at fault? Well both are at fault, but the Christian child is more so, because they knew better. We as Christians are supposed to be different from the world, not like the world. It the world goes one way and we know that way is wrong we should not just sit back and do nothing, or worse follow them.

We could have another scenario where we have the secular child, and a Christian child and they are friends. The secular child goes to do something wrong and his/her, Christian friend knows they are doing something wrong, but does and says nothing. The secular child is at fault because they did wrong, but the Christian child is also at fault because they did nothing to warn their friend.

Many of us Christians have done the same, we have allowed sin to pass by us without a word or a warning, or we joined them in sin. We are all partly responsible for our actions and we will all have to answer for them, whether we were instigators, accomplishes or bystanders.

Our country has fallen so far from where it first started. Not only have we fallen away from our original purpose and morality, but have turned upside down and backward! We save trees instead of children. We say women are better than men (opposed to equal and different), we say dogs are "children", we talk about world peace (which we know will never come to be), we want to throw out capitalism to make room for socialism!

Just the other day I went to get my license and I could not get one without a birth certificate, my friend went to get a passport and could not get one without a birth certificate, yet our president can get elected without one!

We have thrown down our laws and stomp on them, instead of up holing them. We only have the freedoms we enjoy in America because of our laws in the Constitution. If we throw out the constitution, we throw liberty away too.

President Obama asked stay at home moms to go back to work, while allowing illegal immigrants to come into the US, live on welfare, and do nothing!

People, we need to stop letting our country side down this slippery slope. We have allowed people to come into government positions who are anti- America, and Are trying to make us like everyone else, thus no longer a city on a hill.

Let us not allow this country that our founding Fathers sacrificed their lives, fortune, and sacred honor for, fall into the hands of those who do not honor it, do not have regard for the men who fought for freedom, and who do not hold God's law as Higher than their laws. It was our Founding Fathers duty to fight for their posterity's freedom. Today, as their posterity, it is our duty to fight so that our freedoms will not dwindle into oblivion, but instead that us and our posterity may come back to the cross of Christ, and our light be rekindled so that we may once again shine as a bright light in a dark world. May America forever be a city on a hill.