On this most special of days, the day we celebrate the declaration of our freedom from England, I ask that we give pause and answer the question, why do we fight? Is it simply to defend our Constitution? A noble cause indeed, for without it, our government would have the ability to infringe upon the very freedoms it swears to protect. However, it is still simply a piece of paper.

In today's culture, many of the more "enlightened" minds of our time believe that the Constitution is an outdated prescription. A set of rules that had a place in a culture far less intellectually able to comprehend the future evolution of the human species. In short, we have developed intellectually to such a degree, that the paper of the Constitution must evolve and change making it a living, breathing document. The truth is, I wish it were so. I wish that we in our humanity had the ability to learn from past mistakes, to grow to such a degree that we could achieve a universal utopia. Unfortunately, those with this view have a sad ignorance both of world history, human nature, and the very real existence of evil. So while the Constitution is of the utmost importance to us as Americans, what is far more important, what gives it its true power, is the source from which it came.

Our Constitution is simply a byproduct of something far greater and until we realize as a culture that we must return to a time beyond our founding so that we can understand its purpose, we will continue to fall short in returning American to her former glory.

Our freedom is not the result of our Constitution, our Constitution is the result of our freedom, a freedom that can only be afforded to us by our Creator. If we try to use our laws to implement our morality, we will forever fall short, as is evidenced by the last fifty years. Without leadership that truly acknowledges as Thomas Jefferson did that we are a people that needs, "... the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power, and to whose goodness I ask you to join in supplications with me that He will so enlighten the minds of your servants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures that whatsoever they do shall result in your good, and shall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations," then we are truly a lost nation.

When we fight for the Constitution, it is as if we are a physician that is trying to treat the symptoms of a disease and not the cause.

So on this most sacred of days in our country's lore, let us remember to focus on the true meaning of the United States of America. Let us take this day to ask ourselves the true purpose of the fight in which we engage. We stand on the precipice of not just losing the single greatest bastion of freedom the world has ever known, but we live under the threat of losing it because we have lost sight of why we fight. We fight for the byproduct and not the cause. We must fight to return our land to a country that fully and wholeheartedly acknowledges the need of our Sovereign Lord and His son Jesus Christ and until our leaders turn and lead us down this road, we will be a shell of what our God intended.

God bless you and yours on this unique day in all of history. A day that commemorates that all men are endowed by their Creator, not by their Constitution or any laws of man, with certain unalienable rights, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness!

In His Service and Yours,

Brett M Petillo

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