Eric Metaxas has written a short, but noteworthy book on the state of our country. He tells the story of our founding fathers and their attempt to create a country governed in a totally new way, by those who live there. This was a startling new concept when compared to the monarchist models found almost everywhere else in the world at that time, and still is when compared to the totalitarian, dictatorships, empires, centralized,…types of governments today that do not deliver wealth and freedom to its’ people.
The qualifier about this system of government is the real risk that the governed may not realize their role in maintaining freedom by taking it for granted. Their role in sacrificing some of what they want to ensure all get something of what they want. That there is a larger force at play, God, or the supreme force, or whatever you wish to verbalize as your view of them, or it.
He is an apologist for God, as am I, and that God was involved in the creation of this country. He makes the point that even today the U.S. is different, in the midst of all our issues, still a place people want to come to. Pretty good evidence of the attraction.
But as Dr. Franklin said to Mrs. Powell that morning in Philadelphia, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
An easy read with regard to length, but a powerful message for all of us who live in the U.S., and elsewhere.