The Path to Stability

There is an unmistakable sense of floundering in America. We are told we have an ‘unprecedented’ economic crisis; we are told government is the only answer. The politicians concoct a ‘stimulus’, yet the people see through it as nothing but the irresponsible spending at incomprehensible levels of money that doesn’t exist except through the printing of it, or the confiscation of it from existing or future citizens (including generations yet unborn). We have a Secretary of the Treasury smart enough to cheat on his taxes, self-assured enough to proclaim the necessity of another trillion plus plan to save the economy, but plainly fearful that he has no idea whether it will work. We have a President so hip and so cool and so rightly pedigreed and so messianic that we actually have people in this country who ask the President of the United States to get them a kitchen and a bathroom, or to improve the salary and benefits at McDonald’s. Floundering is too gentle a word for this; insanity is closer to the mark.

Serious people of any political stripe can’t be comfortable with all this. America’s founding fathers would be stunned by what has become of the independent, bow-to-no-king, self-reliant, God-fearing-but-not-government-loving society they forged out of the core idea of individual freedom and responsibility under God. But the good news is that the core idea is still the right idea, and the path out of our current mess involves the simple, but not easy, return to the honoring of and adherence to that right idea.

Runaway intellectualism has confused and perverted the idea of individual freedom by equating it with amoral license, and of course the approved thought of the elite media and their elitist acolytes scoffs and chokes and spews at the mere mention of God. But the people know better. Love for the core ideals of America is written in their hearts—by their Creator. Humility before God is also written in their hearts—because there is a Creator. And so there will be a return to stability, and a sense of now-we-can-start-picking-up-the-pieces, when the people sense among their leaders a return to faith in America’s founding ideals, and a genuine humility before God.

How long will this take? Either the thinking of the current leadership will change in the right direction, or the current leadership will be removed and replaced until the necessary change in thinking takes place. None of this depends on election cycles. It depends on prayer, trust and faith in God. To paraphrase the Bible, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous people availeth much. Let’s expect the needed change, soon.

Paul Gable

Posted February 11, 2009