The Lord Our God is One
By Jessica Greer
American citizens have begun to emerge as leaders of the free world.
The 21st century is finally turning the corner into a new era. Power structures of yore slowly wane.
The ordinary individual with inalienable rights extends that freedom beyond the local municipalities, thus launching political and government leaders to pursue global initiatives in their interest.
Together, United States citizens determine the fate of the world through representation. As one joins in agreement with another, social-contracts combined with self-interest yields itself to the greater American ideals that are not ascertained by a man or a system or an institution.
Our fundamental principles are legitimized by God’s objective truth, even to the chagrin of Machiavellian statesmen like John Kerry. At the 2024 World Economic Forum, Kerry referred to the First Amendment as a “roadblock for democratic efforts.”
He emphasized the importance of winning votes to “build consensus” around pushing geo-political agendas. In other words, hoodwinking Americans for their own good.
This belief of “building consensus” has dominated the campaign goals of the left for some time, forged by postmodernists who peddle nihilism and will to power in order to build a brave new world outside the bounds of reality.
While it has been a profoundly exhausting effort to collectivize the ever changing, constantly absurd subjective realities of atheists by identity (pagans in reality), it has not been in vain!
Americans for quite some time fell into quite the identity crisis, causing unprecedented moral decay at a rapid pace. However, the priority shift has sent a resounding rejection to these dogmatic ideologies.
Currently, we sit in a historically uncertain moment. We know that the climate has changed. However, there is a honeymoon phase miraging what may be a political, cultural, and religious vacuum.
In 1517, Martin Luther set off a chain reaction of events after nailing his 95 theses to a church in Wittenberg, Germany. Luther’s most influential criticism, challenging the selling of indulgences, rocked the stronghold of the Catholic Church over European nations.
The Protestant Reformation catapulted Europe into a new world order. Along with the collapse of political power structures, from monarchs to the Pope, came a religious power vacuum spawning 36 years of religious wars. The center could not hold.
From these tumultuous years of religious factions rose a city upon a hill.
In 1620, the Pilgrims fled religious persecution to land on Plymouth Rock. John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Birthed out of reformation, the United States begins to form from the spirit of E Pluribus Unum, which means Out of many, one.
The daily Jewish prayer taken from Deuteronomy 6:4 says: Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad, which means "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One."
The Hebrew word echad means one, and within its context is the understanding of a single entity made up of more than one part; a compounded unity; that everything is connected through God.
This oneness of God is the principle of objective truth that supports any sense of the American paradox called the United States. How then can a nation, made up of individuals representing many nations and states representing many individuals, be one people?
Outside of God’s total oneness – His truth and all ideals connected through Him and by Him as the source, including equality, freedom, individuality, etc. – there exists no such oneness; only an ever-spiraling abyss of subjective nothingness.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 says, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
How can one fragmented broken individual become whole, connected to the oneness and unity of God, and existing in unity with others? By loving God with all of our heart, soul, and strength.
The reality of America’s essential spirit of unity cannot exist outside the reality of God’s oneness. There is no such thing as “building a consensus” that produces unity amongst free thinking people.
Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:10 says, “I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.”
As this new era leads us down paths of reformation, redemption, and revival, it is in the spirit of “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” that we look up toward His objective oneness that unites us as Americans.
It is the supernatural compounded light of God that sources all ideals, extinguishing the division and factions of subjective pluralism.
Whatever narratives may war for seats of power, the security of this nation’s rare unity can only survive under the indivisible oneness of God, as He alone is Lord.