Dear Editor,
In 2006, an electronic billboard ad read: Righteousness exalts Jamaica radically!
The Bible reveals that the causes of the rise and fall of nations are moral and spiritual. It declares that righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
No nation can rely on its strength, power, and wealth to save it from the devastating effects of moral decay. Moral, ethical, and spiritual problems cannot be resolved by money, strength of arms, social programmes, intelligence, or humanitarian goodwill all by themselves.
If one were to take a good look throughout history, it would become obvious that there is a direct and invaluable relationship between personal integrity and the society's prosperity. We need faith in God to provide the anchor for the nation. Without it, we are cast adrift, and robbed of any means of determining right from wrong. We thus experience a nation that staggers like a drunkard unable to find a wall to hold himself up.
What is Jamaica today but a nation bent on pleasure, entertainment, vanity, greed, and utter selfishness at the expense of stable marriages, families, and other relationships? Jesus is the answer! Righteousness will exalt this nation.
As we seek to see our nation exalted, let us develop appropriate moral and ethical convictions based on the word of God. Let us stop going along with the majority and choose to make a difference.
Come on, team Jamaica, let us do it together for 2014 onwards.
Millicent Battick
Sbat65@gmail.com
Righteousness will exalt Jamaica
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In 2006, an electronic billboard ad read: Righteousness exalts Jamaica radically!
The Bible reveals that the causes of the rise and fall of nations are moral and spiritual. It declares that righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
No nation can rely on its strength, power, and wealth to save it from the devastating effects of moral decay. Moral, ethical, and spiritual problems cannot be resolved by money, strength of arms, social programmes, intelligence, or humanitarian goodwill all by themselves.
If one were to take a good look throughout history, it would become obvious that there is a direct and invaluable relationship between personal integrity and the society's prosperity. We need faith in God to provide the anchor for the nation. Without it, we are cast adrift, and robbed of any means of determining right from wrong. We thus experience a nation that staggers like a drunkard unable to find a wall to hold himself up.
What is Jamaica today but a nation bent on pleasure, entertainment, vanity, greed, and utter selfishness at the expense of stable marriages, families, and other relationships? Jesus is the answer! Righteousness will exalt this nation.
As we seek to see our nation exalted, let us develop appropriate moral and ethical convictions based on the word of God. Let us stop going along with the majority and choose to make a difference.
Come on, team Jamaica, let us do it together for 2014 onwards.
Millicent Battick
Sbat65@gmail.com
Righteousness will exalt Jamaica
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