WE CANNOT ESCAPE OUR DESTINY

Submitted by: Kathy Hawkins

“We cannot escape our destiny”

In 1974, then Governor Ronald Reagan of California gave one of his most famous speeches, known as his “City upon a Hill” speech because of his allusion to those words by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. These are good words with which to end a year and begin a new one: You can call it mysticism if you want to, but I have always believed that there was some divine plan that placed this great continent between two oceans to be sought out by those who were possessed of an abiding love of freedom and a special kind of courage. This was true of those who pioneered the great wilderness in the beginning of this country, as it is also true of those later immigrants who were willing to leave the land of their birth and come to a land where even the language was unknown to them. . . . Standing on the tiny deck of the Arabella in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast, John Winthrop said, “We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. . . .” We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, “The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.” We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth. If America falls, so does the World thus there can be no 'One World Order' or nations that are not free too.  Freedom is ingrained in our being.  If we stop fighting for it, satan has won and we all know that God won a long time ago so all we have to do it BELIEVE the truth of Jesus and the Bible!