Posted on 06/22/2018 2:57:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Well, I’m just talking spiritual practicalities. An America that can just be left alone wasn’t entirely realistic even in founding days, and it sure isn’t now.
So if the balance of influence is out of us into the rest of the world, we avert being compromised in the other direction. We can be measured in how we do this. Nobody is saying for the USA to wear itself out or spend itself down to nothing in doing this. But if indeed “in God do we trust” then we’re going to be a source, not a sink or even a static entity, in the world until it is over.
It is a necessary consequence of what divine grace is. It can’t be hogged, any more than manna could be saved up for any day (except the once a week sabbath). To get it from God, we must be of an attitude to pass it on to others.
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