I’m Not Leaving My Country
It has become something of a trend for liberal celebrities to announce that they are leaving our country if they don’t get their way in the presidential election. It’s happening again this year!
In 2016, noted celebrities such as Barbara Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg and Cher claimed they would leave America if Donald Trump became the President of the United States; over their choice of preference, Hillary Clinton.
Again, this year, the claims of noted celebrities promising to leave our country, if President Trump is re-elected is blaring louder than ever.
Bruce Springsteen, Tommy Ice, Miley Cyrus, Al Sharpton, Amy Schumer, and dozens more have publicly pledged that they will depart from America forever, if the hated Donald Trump is re-elected as President.
As I read these comments, I can’t help but think about the thousands of servicemen and women who have fought for our national freedom. That freedom includes the right to dissent, the right to vote, to run for political office, and the right to live in peace in a secured nation.
I also wondered where they’d prefer to live, if they are so oppressed by the results of an American political election. Would they prefer to go to any of the vast number of state Dictatorships, perhaps a nice Communist country, or maybe one of the many growing Socialist states, or perhaps an Islamic theocracy.
Their choices of attractive places to relocate to are not very appealing, at least they aren’t in my way of thinking. I’ve always felt tremendously fortunate and blessed to be born in and live in America!
As a Christian, I have always felt pretty safe and oh so very lucky to live in a Christian based country! But, because of a gradual decaying of our Christian founding; I have for quite sometime now sensed and followed a growing trend of anti-Christian backlash in our culture, our society, our media, our arts, and our government.
Our beloved nation has in effect allowed itself to be enticed away from a Biblical worldview basis towards a more atheistic, liberal, socialist, and ultimately Globalist government.
When I read about these fragile Americans threatening to leave our country; my mind turns to the Thousands of people everyday that are risking life and limb, leaving their countries behind for a chance to get into America. They take this desperate risk because life is unbearable in their native lands.
America has always been a beacon of light and hope in the world. It has been the rare exception of history’s roll call of nations to ever offer its people freedom, economic optimism, civil rights, religious liberty, and the pursuit of individual happiness. You don’t find those intangibles in the rest of the world!
And you don’t find these precious gifts around the world because America is the lone member of the community of modern nation states to be built upon the principles of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ!
Back in 1964, future President Ronald Reagan stated the following in a political speech about freedoms last stand. It’s subject matter is more serious today than it has ever been!
“Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.”
And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.” And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
So while this years presidential election is extremely important for our future, like many of you, I can’t help but wonder aloud about the consequences of its results.
I am hoping and praying for a big victory for the presidential candidate and other candidates that best represent my understanding of a Biblical Worldview.
As I pray about this particular election, our country, and its future; I am also pondering how it will affect Christians and the Church in these Last Days! The point should be emphasized that this election could very well affect the welfare of Christians in our country! And Heaven knows, the welcome mat is not out for Christians anywhere else in the world.
But I know one thing for sure: no matter who wins the presidential election this year, the fact is, if I don’t like the results, there is no place for me to run to for any refuge! I will live, fight and die, right here in America!
America, unfortunately, is the lone fortress of Christianity’s last stand in a world that is headed into Tribulation. I firmly believe that we may well be engaged, in many ways in a fight for the survival of Christian civilization.
So, on November 3rd; even if my preferred choice for President of the United States loses; I’M NOT LEAVING!
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus on the Bible
October 31, 2020
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