"Big Brother" - When the Government Oversteps Its Authority

I recently read an article about a court case in Canada which was like a story from a horror novel - a story which really just goes to show how eager the Government is to take over every aspect of our lives...

A Canadian father prohibited his 12-year-old daughter from internet use after finding out that she was doing some very inappropriate and dangerous things online. His daughter disobeyed and used a friend's computer instead to carry on her foolish activities, and as a result, her father grounded her, prohibiting her from participating in "the three-day overnight trip that her school was taking to celebrate their graduation from 6th grade."

So what did the disobedient child do? Did she submit to her father's just correction and repent of her sin? Not a bit of it. Instead, she takes her father - her father, mind you - to court, and "challenges his right to prohibit her from attending a school trip."

Read that paragraph over again. It should make you sick.

And guess what? The judge, a woman, decides in the daughter's favor, ruling "that the father had in fact overstepped his authority, and that the punishment was too severe."

This is what happens when a nation steps away from the Lord, forsaking Him and the things pertaining to Him, and pursuing their own, worldly wisdom (Prov. 3:7; 14:12). This is what happens when parents fail to pass down God's precepts to their children (Duet. 6:6-7). This is what happens when children no longer honor and respect authority (Exo. 20:12). This is what happens when "Big Brother" oversteps his God-given boundaries to meddle in things that are not his to meddle with.

We live in a "crooked and perverse generation (Phil. 2:15)." Slowly but steadily the nations of the world are turning their backs on God, His Word, and His Laws. It is a sad decline, and the Devil no doubt rejoices mightily as he watches his minions go on with their filthy work. Christians dwell in an age where it is requisite that they stand firm against the World, the Flesh, and Satan, and raise up Godly seed to carry on Christ's work and continue the fight. Sadly, that is just what many "Christians" are not doing. They gradually become more and more like the world, blending in, and going with the flow as if there were nothing different between Christ's followers and Worldlings. How is Christian Light going to make any difference in the Darkness if we hide it (Matt. 5:14-16)?

That court case occurred in Canada. But America is next. We now have a president who, despite his claims to Christianity, upholds perversion, child-slaughter, and a host of other unbiblical principals and ideas. Things can only get worse unless God intervenes on behalf of a country that is sinking deep into the Slough of Sin. We can only hope and pray that He does.

Already, the Children's Rights Convention describes corporal punishment as"physical violence." Under the articles of this Convention, parents would no longer be able to "deprive" their children of liberties, like the Canadian father did. If a parent did "deprive" his/her child of certain freedoms, the child could bring the matter to court, and get "legal or other appropriate assistance". In essence, parents would no longer have the right to discipline their children or restrict them in any way without concern of Big Brother interceding to do what's really best for the children. The UNCRC is a fire bomb which will only result in destruction if it goes through and the US signs on as 192 other countries already have.

It rejects the right of fathers and mothers to be fathers and mothers. It defies the mandated guidelines found in Scripture. If it is passed, it would have serious repercussions. We see bumper stickers saying "God Bless America". Rather, why don't we say, "God Forgive America".

"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55:7

Persevero,

Scribe

P.S. ~ If you would like to read the entire article about the aforementioned court case in Canada, here it is at http://www.parentalrights.org/blog/courts-the-law/much-ado