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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
"Salesmen of Freedom"
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.” II Corinthians 3:17
(This devotion is taken from J.C. Penny’s book Lines of a Layman.)
Why does America have the world’s highest standard
of living? We do not have greater natural resources such as coal and
iron and timber than other nations, as so many seem to think. There are
other nations such as Russia and China and India which have these
samples national wealth in greater abundance that we do. But we have
more conveniences than any other people- and this I emphasize:
Because we are a free people-
We are free to make and to sell; to buy and to save;
to be farmers or machinists, merchants, doctors or lawyers; free to
speak out, free to worship as we choose, free to come and go in an
economy embedded in the principle of example rather than in then gloom
of envy.
If we were good salesmen of freedom, do you
suppose Communism would have been able to overrun half the world in
less than a generation?
If we were good salesmen of freedom, do you
suppose Communism would have been able to cross our own borders and
penetrate our schools, our churches, our government, our homes?
Do you suppose, if we really believed in
freedom, half of the world would be hating us, and the remaining half
distrusting us?
You might think about those things. In fact,
if you love this land and its freedom, it is imperative for you to
think about them. Imperative that we- you and I- do something about it.
It is of highest importance that we subscribe again to that American
principle known as self-reliance- believe again in its promise that any
man’s success indicates what every man can do, if he tries.
Study verses: Galatians 5:13; I
Peter 2:16; James 1:25; II Chronicles 7:14.
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Previous devotions
"They
Had Been With Jesus" - July 21, 2010
"He
Healed Them All" - July 14, 2010
"Faith
In America" - July 7, 2010
"Slow
To Anger; Great In Power" - June 30, 2010
"He
Is Precious" - June 23, 2010
"The
Fire of Strife" - June 16, 2010
"The
Common Man" - June 9, 2010
"In
My Prosperity I Said I Shall Not Be Moved" - June 2, 2010
"Cast
Thy Burden Upon The Lord" - May 26, 2010
"God,
That Comforteth Those That Are Cast Down" - May 19, 2010
"The
People That Do Know Their God Shall Be Strong" - May 12, 2010
"A
Tribute To My Mother"
- May 5, 2010
"Criticism"
- April 28, 2010
"Six
Principles For Daily Living" - April 21, 2010
"Faith
Through Trial" - April 14, 2010
"We
Admire" - April 8, 2010
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