Bring Back the New Again

Father God, I feel like I have let us both down as it seems I don’t have the same enthusiasm about our relationship that I did when we first got together. I promise that I don’t want to be taking you for granted. I think it’s just that I have become so used to having you with me, and that I have become accustomed to your presence. I think that our relationship is wonderful, and I pray you do also. I sometimes find myself using my own resources instead of immediately calling on you for all things. I do know that the insights I have gained about you, through experience and study of your Word, should have displaced all reliance on self. I know that we Christians need to keep being filled, by the Holy Spirit, as we tend to leak. The words of a Christian song come to mind at times like this.

“Bring Back The New Again”

Verse:
I can still remember, the wonderful feeling, back when I first got to know You
It seemed the world was mine, I had joy, I had springtime
But that's all just a memory anymore
I guess I took my eyes off You Lord, but I don't want this callous feeling anymore
Oh, please bring back the way it was before

Chorus:
Bring back the new again, I want to see You again
Bring back the way it was, when we began
How did I miss the road? When did I lose the glow?
And where did the wonder go? Bring back the new again

Verse:
It wasn't long ago when, my heart was glowing, and every new day was a challenge
But indifference turned me cold, made things stale, made them old,
Now I've lost the happy song I used to sing
It seems that I forgot the most important thing, but I don't want this callous feeling anymore
Oh, please bring back the way it was before

Chorus:
How did I miss the road? When did I lose the glow?
And where did the wonder go? Bring back the new again!
Words and music by Gordon Jensen

I believe an analogy can be drawn between the excitement of first becoming a Christian and the early time of our newly founded Christian nation. By reading the true history of our nation (not the revionist history taught in our schools today), there can be no doubt but that this country was founded by a vast majority of people who were Christian and intended, in fact and in theory, that the Bible was the basis of the foundation of the United States of America.

Through subterfuge and conspiracy, there has been a falling away from the original foundations of our nation. These foundations have been redefined by those who were obviously inspired by the one personage, Satan, who is most disturbed by people who believe in the Word of God. If we could interview founders like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, we could easily determine their original intent and the true foundations of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and documents following, such as the Federalist Papers. In fact we have that information available through the writings of our founders (the actual documents, not the interpretations of the revisionists).

The original intent of our founders was to give the God of the Bible first place in our political system as well a first place in our educational system. Christians were preferred as office holders, and bibles were printed and distributed by the government, for use in our schools. Only by understanding why we have the laws we have, can we understand why they should be obeyed.

In the 1920’s, an insidious and creeping plague, known as the progressive movement, began to gain power in our political system. The purpose of this movement is to replace reliance on God, and the Bible, with the will of man. These people were successful, beginning in the sixties, in slowly but surely reinterpreting the courts’ basis for defining the constitution. When God says in His Word that man is right in his own eyes, He is referring to mans efforts to come out from under the will of the Lord and decide all things for himself. The ACLU, in collusion with the Klu Klux Klan, in a case brought to the Supreme Court, brought in a misrepresentation of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson which referred to a ‘wall of separation’ between church and state. What Jefferson was telling the Baptists was that the Federal government could in no way interfere with their right to worship as they pleased. It takes some special kind of perversion and deception to believe that Jefferson was in any way attempting to limit the meaning of the First Amendment. That would fly in the face of the rest of Jefferson’s writings and the actions taken by Jefferson, especially while he was president. He held church services in government buildings, used military bands for the music, and under his direction, established government paid missionaries to spread the message of the Bible. The Christian religion was the fundamental basis of the everyday functioning and decisions of our government. The basis of our laws comes directly from the Bible. The structure of our governmental and court systems comes from the Bible.

What is needed is a return to the original intent of the founders. While we operated under those intents, we prospered. Since these original ideals have been eroded away, we can trace a direct path of reduction of our prosperity, morality, an increase in crime and a lessening of influence in the world.

If we continue in our apathy, to watch as the secularists slowly chip away at our freedoms, we will have no one to blame but ourselves. The more we allow these people to marginalize the Word of God, the farther away we will be away from our beautiful beginnings. Either our country, as devised by God, is worth the effort, or it is not. What is truly worth having is worth fighting for. “It wasn't long ago when, my heart was glowing, and every new day was a challenge. But indifference turned me cold, made things stale, made them old, now I've lost the happy song I used to sing. It seems that I forgot the most important thing, but I don't want this callous feeling anymore. Oh, please bring back the way it was before.”

We need now, as we had at the beginning, Christian leadership
in our government. The problem with this need is that it means we have to take part in the election process and running for office against the anti-God influences. We need to take part in and support the fundamental Judeo/Christian influences and stop sitting around waiting for the end of the world.

Rick Rahn

As with all of my writings, everything must be compared to the Bible, for verification.