It has long been known that history repeats itself. The oft quoted
quip of Santayana has been stated in many ways since, but it still
stands that "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." The
things of the past are our tutors. We lean and trust on those with
silver crowns because it's by their wisdom and experience that we learn
the lessons of life and good decision making. We also learn from
histories how nations have stood and how nations have fallen by searching out their
strengths and weaknesses—what their leaders stood for and what they
stood against. Those who fail to do so throw caution to the wind and
their leadership is marked out by the fickleness of emotionalism,
narcissism, the lusts of the flesh, and a thirst for success and power
rather than the discipline of the soul; moreover, whether in their day
or in the days that follow, a lack of Godly leadership that models solid ethics and morality only brings despair and destruc…
...Only God's Truth Can Set You Free!!
Michael Henderson, Sr. Pastor First Baptist Church, Springfield IL