After listening to the State of the Union address last night and reading a book on the history of the Brooklyn Bridge tonight, I am reminded more than ever of these wise words: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9, NIV).
In each case, one could but change a few details and have a thousand other circumstances. As a result, history should be our greatest teacher, and yet what we see in society is nothing other than an entire generation (at least) ignorant of history. Even the supposed academics have no understanding of what went before them, as they propose the same foolish ideas that their predecessors did, albeit in other guise. We need to return to an understanding of what has been done before, for the incidents of the past will become the incidents of the future.
History can teach us much, and its grandest lesson is that a society that ignores God and refuses to acknowledge Him and His precepts will not long endure. How long do we think that we can, as a nation, thumb our nose at God and expect Him not to bring our society to judgment? Where is our hope? In saying, "God bless America?" No, it is rather the reverse, "America Bless God."
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