A Word to the Wise

It's early afternoon and I've been reflecting on President Obama's State of the Union address. It makes me cringe each time a pundit remarks that what many heard was jaundiced by the color of the president's skin. For God's sake! Haven't we made any progress at all? The answer provided by current events is that what we label 'progress' is the development of technological prowess aimed at possessing the greatest capacity to kill. The separation of Church and State is no excuse for taking morality out of the equation. Perhaps historians will someday uncover one, but I know of no American president who did not acknowledge a power, an authority, greater than themselves, and to the degree that each man (and, someday, woman) acknowledged that this was so, his intelligence was graced by wisdom. Technology itself is amoral, but the human application of it is moral or immoral. Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (Proverbs 29:18, KJV) We are dangerously close to learning the consequences of monumentally unwise--immoral--human choices, paramount among them the premeditation of murder (e.g. war; capital punishment, etc). At this critical point in our evolution, we will choose to either continue on an evil path of immoral arrogance, or to change our course in the moral direction which promises abundant life. I thank God for our president's wisdom in knowing the difference.