President Reagan’s Vision

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

In the course of our lives, we have the choice to live free or to live confined.  That goes for all areas of life.

If we love our jobs and enjoy them, we live free.  If we, everyday, struggle to find pleasure in our work, it’s confining and restricting.  BUT, we have the choice to embark on a new career.

If we are in a relationship that seems to be going nowhere quickly.  It’s very confining and constricting. We have the choice to be involved in relationships that help us grow; that enrich our lives.

If we are in spiritual burnout or complacency, it’s confining and debilitating. We have the choice to come to Jesus and seek renewal and fulfillment.

President Reagan’s vision was that we live lives that were full.  In that fullness, he recognized that we had a choices to make. Our choices lead to freedom or entrapment.  His suggestion is that we live our lives that allow men to remain free for, not only our present times, but well into the future.

Aside from any spiritual context and deeper sets of meaning we could draw from this quote, we can at least appreciate the simple political and cultural implications.  President Reagan knew that we had to do all that we could to insure our freedoms, liberties, and well-being moved on for future generations.

Our present day demands us to step up and be heard.  Our perilous times request payment for the “much that is given.” Our political environment, which treads very often into the spiritual world, has called out those who love liberty and freedom. It beckons those, who like President Reagan, must now pick up and run the race, keep the course, and keep the faith.

Our country, inspired into existence by Judeo-Christian precepts, must return to the day when Christ reigned in the hearts of men. When the Bible wasn’t questioned as fact or fiction but was the centerpiece of life.  When God wasn’t viewed as a convenience, but rather, He had preeminence in the lives of men.

Reagan’s vision here goes much deeper than just a political posturing.  This is about life. It’s about all things good and fruitful.  It’s about men and women having the opportunity to make choices.  It’s about boys and girls growing up believing in themselves and their God.  It’s about a society turning to God and sincerely being engrossed in living out that message of freedom.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, it’s time to stand for our freedoms.  It’s time to put on the whole armor and confront the enemy at the gates.  To engage the enemies of our freedoms.  To go head-to-head with the evil around us.  To face-off the against those that would have us come under enslavement.  To openly challenge those systems that would attempt to eliminate our liberties.

God has given us much and now much is required.

Former President Reagan knew that freedom was a passing phase if men and women didn’t step up to the plate and demand it and defend it.  We must, in our time, become a driving force in society that our God might be glorified and that we might have a future clothed in freedom, both spiritually through Christ and politically for the our country and for the world.

Lifewarrior