Food for thought...

So, my boss recently showed this to me, and I thought it was extremely interesting. And pretty dead on.

Professor Alexander Tyler referring to the Athenian Republic's demise:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent force of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasure, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage
From Great Courage to Liberty
From Liberty to Abundance
From Abundance to Selfishness
From Selfishness to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependence
From Dependence back again to Bondage."


I do fear for our country. And I don't know what the next years/decades hold. And yet I trust God, because I know that nothing surprises Him. He is the First and the Last, the only One who is sovereign over all, and nothing escapes His notice. But I do pray that we as a country can learn from history and turn and repent before it is too late.

What do YOU think? And I really do want to know!

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, not angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." ~Romans 8:35-39