Cubal (8) or Cuba vs the United States

I am in a time crunch to finish my Cuba blogs.  I leave for a different adventure on Saturday.  I must finish unpacking before I can repack for my next journey.  Today's blog is political. One cannot have come from Cuba, observe our holiday and not be affected.  I was!  I am!

It is the 4th of July.  In the US this is our Independence Day celebration.  We celebrate that we are the land of the Free and the Brave.  At one time that was true.  Today, I wonder if next year at this time if we will still be that country.  Because, it is our day for remembering our past I am going to take a different approach on my unpacking.  Our freedoms are at great risk and we have to just look at Cuba to see where we are heading. 

At one time the Cuban Flag stood for: The Blue Stripes, the three districts of colonial Cuba.
The White Stripes,  the purity of the patriotic cause.  The White Star, Cuba's Independence and Freedom.  The Red Triangle, equality, strength and constancy.  The flag remains, the original sentiments do not.  May 20, 1849.

Communism/Socialism a grand ideological structure has ruined a beautiful country.  The people are poor and looking for something more.  The promises that the Government will care for you, 'just let us think for you', 'let us tell you what you can grow and where you can sell it', has gone bust, big time.   Cubans want our freedoms! 

The cities reminded me of the end of the world movies we have all seen.  The once magnificent buildings are shells that are run down and rotting. The Cubans have free health care, a cry many Americans scream for.  It sounds great but the Cubans have no medicine.  Everyone is given food vouchers and food is 'equally' distributed but they are hungry.  Everyone has free education and their education is good but there is no place to use it.  The Cubans desire freedom to work and to choose what they do with their lives.  Their is no equality.  The leaders remain rich and the people have nothing. 
 
I watch our political rhetoric, the citizens want free...., the politicians tell us they will give it to us.  Someone (government should take care of me/us).  Along with demands of entitlements, we are choosing to reject a moral code determined by God. That code that kept life in balance  is now being mocked and scorned.  With out a moral code evil reigns.  Corruption and evil has always been a part of any government but we as a country agreed on a moral code that helped to reign in that evil.  It wasn't perfect, but it provided hope and justice based on truth.

My visit to Cuba opened my eyes anew that apart from a group of people who fear and love God, revere His commandments and honor them there will be no peace.  Evil men and women will jockey for power in the name of helping people or controlling people.  They join an elite club that benefits them for the moment.  Money and power becomes their God.  It matters not the philosophy. 

I am grateful for the 10's of thousands of Cubans who have learned that when there is no money, no jobs, no medicine, no hope there is hope in knowing Jesus.  They have risked a great deal to shift to this thinking.  But to see their joy, their peace and hope tells me again that this world is not my home, their  home but eternity with God, the Lord Jesus Christ will become the residence to be desired.

Some who read this will not like my sentiments.  This I know for certain that apart from God neither country has any hope.   Apart from knowing God evil will continue to wreak havoc in our lives.  The freedoms I grew up will disappear and I might even have to die for my faith.  

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
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 "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." 

Lord Acton - 1894

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Mark 8:36 (Bible)  

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey
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