Liberty designed with everyone in mind
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’
In a recent article, I discussed a little bit on the subject of life. According to the document I copied the above quotation from, life is one of our unalienable rights. However, I think we have gotten to the point of which respect for life has all but disappeared. Many worry about certain animals becoming extinct, and they cry and whine because so few people are joining in with them in their effort to reestablish the animals that are becoming extent. Seems to me when we have more regard for lower animal life than that of human life, we have grossly misapplied our values.
Liberty! What do we think of when we here the word? Lots of people seem to have the ideal that liberty is freedom to do whenever one wishes without regard of who it hurts! Pick up the morning paper. Turn on the news on radio or television or even get the news from the Internet on your computer. See what has happened since last you seen the news.
Yes, you’ll see individuals exercising their liberties. Taking what belongs to another, even to the point of taking their life. Yes, even the life of innocent little children!
How sadly true this is. Liberty isn’t just a one-sided affair. Liberty is designed with everyone in mind. If I decided I have the right to do something against another and take the liberty of doing so, where is his liberty? There is a saying that should hit home for all of us: ‘The liberty to swing one’s arm ends at the tip of the nose of another.’ This saying is crammed full of thought. One may believe that certain phases in the constitution gives a person liberty, he has ‘free course’ to do anything that he wishes to do.
A couple of verses scripture refutes this idea:
1 Peter 2:16 ‘ As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2 Peter 2:19 ‘ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
I think that it is strange that these who go around demanding their rights to sacrifice the rights of others in order to obtain what they believe is ‘their rights’ and ‘their liberties.’ What Peter said so long ago is all so true today. Liberty is promised, but many in the world, yes in the United States has been brought down into bondage! Many use their ‘liberty’ as a cloak of maliciousness even though the divine word has warned us not to do.
Proverbs 6:16-19′ These six things the LORD hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.
Shouldn’t we hate the things God hates? I think that we should. What about those who shed innocent blood? Wouldn’t this include abortionists? If not, why not? No one can be as innocent as a unborn child.
James 1:25 ‘ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 2:12 ‘ So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.