Apprehension about our nation’s future at an all-time high

Conditions in Washington D.C. or at our southern border predominate in many of our conversations.

Additionally, confidence in objective unbiased media coverage is also at an all-time low. I often hear, “I can’t watch, or I don’t watch or it’s hard to watch the national news coverage.”

Since the elections of 2020, Americans have become increasingly skeptical and distrustful of the media coverage of the Biden administration. There is, most certainly, the portent of stormy weather that threatens our Constitutional Republic.

Well, enough gloom and doom!

Hey folks, this is the United States of America. America still has connotations of what freedom and liberty really looks and feels like.

We have a Constitution that was inspired of God. He trained up men, albeit imperfect men, and inspired them to be willing to give up everything they owned even their lives if necessary to declare their independence and form a unique government.

A government Lincoln would later say “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” God wanted a nation with the articulated freedoms in our Bill of Rights to be a nation with major responsibilities in preparing the world for the Second Coming of His Son. Is it any wonder then that evil men inspired by the father of all lies, now call good — evil, and evil — good?

When I learned and accepted the reality of that purpose a calm feeling soon came upon me. That calm feeling was a little surprising at first but then I realized that this nation has experienced much stormy weather over her entire existence. America has come through troubled times before.

Actually, many times before. I have learned by experience that this has been a troubled world for a long time. And, with historical perspective, I now understand that issues come and go but the constant is always right versus wrong.

Or should we say good versus evil?

John Adams once observed: “The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

He also reflected further; “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There has never been a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

Of course, we understand that our forefathers created a Constitutional Republic based on a pattern of democracy; and therein lies our hope! Are we witnessing the fulfillment of both of these observations of John Adams? Are we becoming an immoral and irreligious nation? Are we bound to commit suicide as a nation?

I say yes to the second question and no to the third question. Certainly, we are not bound to commit constitutional suicide.

However, to avoid the fate of constitutional collapse we must have a rival of thought and action consistent with old fashioned morality combined with and motivated by religious vitality centered in Christian values.

The fabric of stable homes has been ravaged and torn by evil men for many years. Evil and conspiring men and women on the far left try to motivate young people to do wrong things in the name of individual freedom.

America has been an ensign to the nations of the world largely because generations of loving mothers and fathers have “rocked the cradles” of their children. They taught them the sound doctrines of honesty, work, industry, thrift and self-reliance.

We can feel peace during the storms of life if we understand that ultimately good will prevail over evil.

The “empty tomb” can bring us peace and the courage to save our nation; but only with the help of He that left the tomb.

We, the people need a revival of Christian values, and we need to arm our children with the moral courage to defeat the designs of those who try to make that which is so wrong look so right.

Jimmy Dixon (R-NC04) represents Duplin and Wayne counties in the N.C. House of Representatives.