Are We Making Good Use of Our Freedom?

by linder6580 at www.sxc.hu

Our freedoms have not come without a cost!

John Quincy Adams who was President from 1825-29 said this . . .

“Posterity–you will never know how much it has cost my generation to persevere your freedom.  I hope you will make good use of it.”  

What would he think now?

Consider that word “cost” in sheer lives lost in our wars.  The total number of Americans killed in U.S. Wars is 1.1 million.  This is just soldiers.  Consider all of the casualties and grief stricken families.

Consider the cost of hours of work and effort by our founding fathers risking personal fame and fortune. Think about all the average people that have built this nation through hard-work and sacrifice through the centuries.

This Memorial Day, as our nation looks back in gratitude, let us consider the responsibility of freedom.

Are we making “good use of it?”  Are we using our freedoms or abusing them?

• We have turned our freedoms into entitlements.
• We insulted the spirit of freedom by making demands upon our government to provide for us.
• We have abused freedom to the point of casting off common sense.  The majority is restricted to the point that we can’t even maintain common structures in society like which restroom to use.
• We misunderstand freedom, thinking it is permission to live as we want, rather than the opportunity to pursue a worthy life of service and faith.
• We mistakenly think freedom means no one can tell us what to do and we have no responsibility to others.

We are John Quincy’s posterity, how are we using the freedom they purchased for us?

I would dare say many of our founding fathers, yeah that vast army of soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice, would shake their head in disgust and wipe tears from their eyes if they could see how we have used the freedom they purchased!

They may say, “I gave my life for this, what a waste!”

America, we need to wake up and start using our freedom wisely and as good stewards or we very well may lose it!