May 11th, 2013 
Scott 
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The book of I Samuel tells how a Godly woman, Hannah, played an essential role not only in the upbringing and dedication to the Lord of one of God’s greatest prophets, Samuel, but even in his very existence. While the latter fact might seem obvious (what mother doesn’t have a role in her child’s existence?!), God heard the pleading prayers of a woman suffering from the pain of a closed womb, and chose to bless her with Samuel and four other children.
Jochebed saved her infant son’s life by disobeying the rulers of her day, setting him adrift in the Nile so he would be found by Pharaoh’s daughter. ‘Volunteering’ to nurse and raise the boy for her, Jochebed was able to not only guarantee safety for Moses, but a position of power and influence as well, all the while raising him for the Lord. As a result, her son helped free an entire nation from slavery.
Mary, mother of Jesus, endured the humiliation of a pre-marital pregnancy to bring the Savior of the world from her womb, then protected Him at all costs, even at one point fleeing to Egypt to escape King Herod’s murderous intent. She loved and nurtured Him while He grew, mourned him when He died, and worshipped Him when he rose again.
From the dawn of time, mothers have played a crucial role in the development of every single one of us. They keep us safe in their wombs. They protect and nurture us when we are small. They help guide us along the path of life as we mature, and give us unconditional love and support throughout our lives. Since we are all somebody’s child, for better or for worse, mothers have always critically shaped their cultures. Indeed, though society historically (until very recently) has been called a ‘man’s world,’ that terms is a gross mischaracterization. Men may do the heavy lifting, but it is and has always been the women who truly wield the hammers that forge civilizations.
While everyone should certainly be equal under the law, as they are under Christ, today’s culture tells women that success lies in whatever outside career path they have chosen. In seeking ‘equality’ with man, far too many have neglected the far more important roles God gave them, preferring instead the vacant mirage of ‘career success.’ Instead of permanently shaping our society for the better by prayerfully and purposefully raising obedient, healthy, strong and independent children, we let daycares and nannies do it instead, picking up a bag of fast food for dinner on the way home.
Please do not misunderstand – The spirit of this post is not meant to judge. To be sure, not every career woman is a bad mother, and not every mother who is able to spend more time with her kids is a good one! Sometimes family decisions are made out of economic necessity, a sad fact which is fodder for an entirely different (and lengthy) post. But, given the horrible state of today’s kids, the rampant disobedience, pampering, disrespect, and overall arrested development, it is clear that we have a generation of children who are hurting.
The watchmen have left the wall. The women have left their hearths. The State is raising an entire generation of children who not only won’t know who the Founders of this nation are and what they did, but why freedom, real freedom, is important at all. When they are old, I shudder to imagine the dark places they will take our civilization.
I’m not saying every mother should quit her job. What I am saying is that mothers should make every effort, within the parameters of their situation, to reclaim their God-given role, to step back up on the lofty podium from which they have been summarily ejected. The most important thing that you will ever do, more important than starting that business, more important than winning that case, more important than that next promotion, more important than anything else you do in your life, is nurturing, raising, teaching, encouraging, and inspiring your children. How well you do that could very well mean the fate of our world.
“Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.” -Proverbs 31: 25-30
Nanny State
As some of you know, my former political site ‘TheNinnyState.com’ has merged with NannyState.com. I will be working with others to help make Nanny State the best source of information about both obscure and well known manifestations of the Nanny State. Information (and mockery!
) is the first step to fighting back. Please check out the short blurb below, and consider liking us on Facebook!
America, the land of opportunity, the last best hope of human freedom. People traveled to her wide open spaces to create economic opportunity for themselves, escape religious persecution, and live a life they couldn’t possibly have imagined living in their homelands, a life of freedom and opportunity. From sea to shining sea they tamed what once was harsh, unforgiving wilderness, blazed trails across dangerous land, planted stakes in the ground that symbolized that most precious of commodities, land they could call their own.
There they built cabins, then towns, then cities, then skyscrapers. There they created the most liberty-based government known to man, a government that encouraged, nay required rugged individuals, acting in their own self-interest, to work hard in order to prosper, so that their communities would prosper in kind.
Sadly, as with all good things, it was not to last forever.
You see, human government has a history of running in cycles. Like the rise of the Roman Republic and the birth of America hundreds of years later, new forms of self-government are often born from man’s yearning for freedom. After that initial birth, a golden age follows, with dramatic increases in inventions and prosperity. The golden age may last a couple hundred years, but it inevitably ends. People begin to grow complacent and, generation by generation, more and more decadent, lazy, content. Instead of traditional self-reliance, they want someone to take care of them. Instead of freedom, they want security.
They want a Nanny State, and, unfortunately, there have always been those who enjoy making a comfortable living giving it to them. Today’s Nannies want to control every aspect of our lives, and far too many are willing to let them. Law by law, regulation by regulation, we are incrementally losing the freedoms that once made America great, the self-reliance that inspired the greatest inventors and captains of industry mankind has ever seen to take the world to places it has never gone before.
The Nanny State is the opposite of that freedom. It is dependence. It is decadence. It is slavery. And it’s not just America – it is worldwide. The Nanny State crushes individuals, stifles entrepreneurship, and creates a culture where people falsely believe the government is able to protect them from anything that could possibly go wrong.
We must break the cycle! We must resist, and the first step in resistance is making the public aware. That is why we started NannyState.com. We want to shine the spotlight on the Nannys at every level of government. We want report their silly, inane, juvenile rules, to mock them for the world to see. We live in a Nanny State, but it doesn’t have to be!
In the meantime…
We report the rules – YOU obey!
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