Once upon a time a certain town nestled at the foot of a Mountain range. It was a pleasant place to be, a small stream ran through the town from waters that were fed by Mountain springs. The water was clear and sparkled in the sunlight. It’s stream ran several water wheels turning machinery, children played on its banks, and swans made their home there, and its water was used by the citizens.
Meanwhile, high up in the hills a forester who called himself keeper of the springs made his rounds, cleaning leaves and thrash from the springs, making sure mud did not clog the bottom. He was on the town payroll. But the town Counsel was a group of hard-headed, eagle-eyed business men. Said the Keeper of the Purse, what does this salary mean? What does he do? Nobody ever sees him. We can build a reservoir and dispense with this budget item. So they sent a message to the hills that he was no longer needed, and the forester turned to his other work, and no loner patrolled and cleaned the springs.
The reservoir was built and soon filled with water. But the water did not seem as clear, scum covered it's surface, the water wheels often clogged with debris and stopped working, and quite soon a fever swept the town. Sadly, the Town Counsel admitted they had made a mistake, and sought out the forester in the hills and asked him to be Keeper of the Springs again. So the water ran clear and pure, and swans returned, and the odor of dirty water was cleared from the air.
When our Founding Fathers wrote and signed the Constitution, and then forged the Bill of Rights, they had law in mind. They established courts to see that laws were kept, order was upheld, so that people in the United States of America could and did lead peaceful and ordered lives. The courts were the Keeper of the Springs.
Unfortunately, courts often make law instead of defining and strengthening it. As an example, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts made same sex marriage legal. One wonders what their thought processes were. Instead of affirming laws, they were more driven by modern thought and felt they had to join the vanguard also. So they set aside the established, and the God-given institution of marriage and turned it into a shambles. My thought is that such courts are more driven by what they perceived as being part of “progress” than seeing to rule of law. So they kick down part of the fence, and weaken the rest of it.
One cannot rebel against Almighty God without seeing unforeseen, unexpected, and often unwanted consequences: as the schools in that State are already finding out.
St. Paul spoke of such matters in Romans chapter 1. People who do not accept God, although “what may be known about God is clearly seen” 1,19, Paul says, “their foolish hearts are darkened.” Then he goes on in verses 24 to 32 to describe their behavior and says, “God gave them over. . ." This is really a chilling picture of sin, and how it always hardens and grows worse.
So with nations. Such court acts often are cited loudly as progressive and being “with it”. But it is not progress when a moral tone is lower than it was. Whatever else it is, it is not progress.
No nation has ever made progress in a downward direction.
No people has ever grown stronger by ,lowering its standards.
No people ever become good by adopting a lower morality.
We need Keepers of the Springs. I pray the Lord will send wisdom, guidance, and direction to a people that seems to have lost its way and wanders, clueless and forlorn, ever seeking. Let us pray that the Lord in heaven Who sent Jesus for such people too, will open eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to understand God’s truth in Jesus, His Son, the Savior of the world.
GPD 2/24/09
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