Restoration
Connecting the Dots

by Darris McNeely

Remember the puzzles we played as children where you connect the dots to reveal a picture of an object or a person? I have been thinking recently about this game and applying it to our current world. There is a new image appearing. Can we see it? Do we see it, but pretend it is not happening?

The Western world will not always be as it is in the present. Events are taking place before our eyes that will change the way of life we have taken for granted for so long. This month marks the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A newly published book called Why America Slept (by Gerald Posner) details the missed opportunities America had to forestall such an attack. Missed opportunities litter the landscape, providing convincing information that had preventive steps, based on credible evidence, been taken in the decade before the attack, thousands of people would not have lost their lives. Many experts continue to say that another major attack is coming upon a major Western nation. Many also ask, Is enough being done to prevent such a blow? Are we truly prepared at the personal level?

Two years after 9/11 we continue to drift. I see it in the way major news companies focus and shape American views. It is easy to slip back into the sensational and salacious news items. Alleged sex scandals of basketball stars are covered extensively and lead the news for weeks. Murder cases, political recalls and vain and petty campaign efforts by grasping politicians dominate serious discussion. No one wants to ask the hard questions of the moment, the questions that could lead us to an effective national renewal.

With two recent court decisions, we see our nation taking the form of a broken vessel that cannot hold anything of moral value. Removing the state laws forbidding sodomy and ordering the removal of a public display of the Ten Commandments from a judicial building are omens of darker clouds on the horizon. These are two among many other signs that indicate the American way of life is changing. The United States is going through a benchmark change that, unless halted and reversed, will transform this country Americans love. We cannot see that the freedoms we cherish draw their basis from the spiritual laws outlined in the simple yet profound document known as the Ten Commandments. Like so many other nations in history, we do not like to retain God in our knowledge.

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Ten commandments:

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• Were the Ten Commandments Known Before Mount Sinai?
• Did Jesus Christ Abolish the Law?
• Does It Really Matter What You Believe?
• An Overview of Conditions Around the World - May/Jun 1997
• Covetousness is Idolatry
• Is God's Law Bondage?
• Adultery: No Longer Sinful or Shameful
• How Can You Find the Right Church?
• If Everyone Kept God's Commandments
• Posting the Ten Commandments Is Not Enough
• Profiles of Faith: Matthew - From Serving Mammon to Serving God
• Could Jesus Christ Be Elected President?
• An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 2001
• Written by the Finger of God
• Partitioning Morality
• Questions and Answers - Jul/Aug 2002
• The Sabbath in the Scriptures
• God's Test Commandment
• Only 17: Broken Laws--Broken Dreams
• Who Determines Right From Wrong?
• Don't Worry, You Won't Miss the Parade
• Written in Stone or on the Heart? The Controversy Over the Ten Commandments
• Is the United States Still a Moral Nation?
• Is It Anti-American to Criticize the Moral Conduct of the United States?
• How Did Jesus Treat His Parents?
• The Spread of Freedom: Foretaste for the Entire World?
• Are Things Really Better Than We Think?
• What's at the Heart of National Problems?
• Is Liberty a God-Given Right?
• The Law - God's Design for Our Lives
• Broken Laws, Broken Dreams
• The Lesson of the Brown Paper Bag
• First, Do Some Good
• The Church of God Today
• Promises to Abraham
• What Is 'Corban'?
• How Can We Obey God's Commandments?
• Does the New Covenant Abolish the Commandments?
• The Ten Commandments: Keys in a Law of Love
• Jesus and His Apostles Affirm the Need to Obey God's Commandments
• Jesus Christ and the Sabbath
• Was God's Law Abolished in the New Testament?
• The Eighth Commandment: Practice Giving Rather Than Getting
• The Fifth Commandment: A Foundation for Success
• How Should We Treat Parents Who Are Difficult to Honor?
• The First Commandment: What Is Our Greatest Priority?
• The Fourth Commandment: Key to a Relationship With Our Creator
• The Ninth Commandment: Truth as a Way of Life
• A Royal Law of Love
• The Second Commandment: What Is God Like?
• The Sixth Commandment: Life Is a Precious Gift
• The Ten Commandments in the New Testament
• Christ's New Commandment
• Grace, Faith and Law (Ten Commandments)
• The Tenth Commandment: True Righteousness Comes From the Heart
• Must We Obey God's Commandments?
• God's Law and the New Covenant
• Preaching the Gospel
• The Foundation of True Values
• The Letter and the Spirit of Law
• Is Your Life "Good Enough" for God?
• You Can Walk With God
• Posting the Ten Commandments - A Law for the Future

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