Ultimate Loyalty
Christian Patriot, day by day

This is my country, I was born in this land. If anyone is a native of the country in which they were born, I am a Native American, a native of the state of California, and an adopted native of the state of Arizona. My loyalty has been to the country in which I was born, never wavering, never considering America anything other than a nation of free people in a land of opportunity. Over the last forty years, that concept has radically changed and the change accelerates daily. My concept of America has not changed during those forty years. American values, morals and standards have changed radically.

In 1975 I had a rebirth, regeneration as it is sometimes called. My eternal citizenship changed, my earthly citizenship did not. But ultimate allegiance did change. As long as America respects the Christian faith and those who practice it, in accordance with both the spirit and the letter of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;") than I have no problem with being both an American and a Christian.

This has been the history of Christians on the North American continent since the days of the Mayflower Compact.

If and when the time comes that my government says Bible-believing Christians are dangerous radicals, then my ultimate allegiance is to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. No questions, no ambivalence, no hesitation. It does not mean that I am any less an American, but that America is less than my country or the nation that I knew by that name. It is something else, and I am not. I have but short years here on earth, as do all humans. Any day could be my last day on earth, whether by sudden illness, auto crash, random shooting incident or a hundred other ways to die. It is my eternal destiny and my eternal citizenship in the Kingdom of God that must always be paramount to me, otherwise, I am a Sunday pew warmer, not a born again Christian. Earthly kingdoms, empires and nations, alliances and movements, have come and gone over the past 3,500 years that the Bible has been in existence from its earliest beginnings; it has been complete for 2,000 years and covers the entire "end times" of this world system.

Most Americans seem to feel that this is the "post-Christian era" and for Europe and the North American continent, it probably is. The Christian faith is most vibrant in South America, sub-Saharan Africa and other places where it has not been the traditional faith of the people. Americans have given up on God for the baals of science, technology and above all, money. Europe defected to godless socialism and has produced nothing of even earthly value since ... art, music, literature or even major technological breakthroughs. Churches are empty while rock concerts and sporting events garner the bulk of crowds.

Material wealth has generally been a stumbling block to receiving the faith and living daily in the walk of faith. Man's sin nature is always providing more baals for worship, and eventually man tosses aside a nuisance God and a godly life for hedonism and earthly power or comfort.

Institutionalized Christianity and the bickerings among believers, or professing believers, have created a hideous caracature of the Christian walk, one that is not prescribed by legalisms from various denominations of believers, but guided by the Holy Spirit according to the sound doctrine of Bible truth.

At this point in time, I am still permitted to be a loyal if disappointed American and a Christian whose eyes are fixed on the ultimate goal of eternal life in God's kingdom. Atheists laugh. Liberal, compromising Christians shake their heads at antiquated notions of taking the Bible that seriously. I take it seriously because God was serious about having His will and word written down for our guidance and benefit, and I do not take God or His word lightly, just as I do not take the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ lightly.

I acknowledge the failures and foibles of imperfect Christians that have offended where offense was unnecessary. Probably the greatest failure of the Church ... all denominations ... has been in ignoring the one commandment given to us by Jesus, the Christ: "love one another." Love? Churches are full of gossip, backbiting, in-your-face evangelism and people whose lives do not comport with their profession of faith. We are a flawed people, but that is all God has to call to His Kingdom. There are no flawless people. One day, we shall be perfected, not here, but in our resurrected, glorified state, our eternal life.

Therein lies my ultimate allegiance, not to any country.

There was a time when our leadership felt this same way, and in 1892 the Supreme Court declared that America was a Christian nation. No, it has never been a theocracy, only God can establish a truly theocratic nation. The court simply meant that the predominant belief system in America was based upon the tenets of the Christian faith. One hundred and ten years later, Christianity is viewed with alarm and disdain by most leaders in public office.

Have I changed? No. Has my allegiance changed? No. Has my country changed? Yes.

My nation has espoused globalism and that most hypocritical of all behavior systems, political correctness. It warps the mind, bends the language and sets itself up against the natural order of things and people. If a person is required to choose between the state and God, then those who are children of the Kingdom have but one Lord, Jesus Christ. If that makes us enemies of the state, as it did in ancient Rome, so be it.

Ultimate allegiance to the state is what Hitler and other tyrants demanded. It is what banana republic dictators like Fidel Castro demand. It is what elitists and adherents to the globalist vision demand. It is the ultimate allegiance demanded by globalism, communism and fascism. It is statism. The state is the reigning baal.

But I confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As long as I can do that and still be a free American, I am a loyal citizen of both my earthly home and my place in the heavenly, eternal Kingdom of God.

If I am forced to choose, then my choice is Jesus Christ.

Amen!

Dorothy Anne Seese, (friends call her "Dottie") lives in Sun City, Arizona. She was born in Souuthern California and became a child actress for Columbia Pictures at the age of 3-1/2, and has been working at something ever since. When she was at UCLA in the mid-50's, she majored in political science and worked on the UCLA Daily Bruin.

Dottie is a Christian conservative who is striving through her writing to help this nation go back to the constitutional and moral foundations upon which it was founded.

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