"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Certainly our Founding Father had specific thoughts when composing such a declaration; thoughts that should transcend time and space. It is not a question of "throwing off the old guard to accept a new one, but changing the one we have to be more aligned with what God originally intended."
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill it lusts (Romans 13:11-14).
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill it lusts (Romans 13:11-14).
Governments change with time, but God's declarations will always remain the same!
It is time that our country and the rest of our world get with God's original program and stop trying to do it on our own. Putting on our Lord Jesus Christ, (for believers) should be clothing ourselves with Christlike Characteristics such as truth, righteousness, and peace. We like many nations have lost our first love and are looking to within to fix the problems of society. It is time for a new look at an old declaration...we hold our truths to be God's truth.
