Common Sense

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense

Reading Thom Paine's pamphlet of 1776. Goes with the pgs of  Dutch Sheet's book on how we are transformed as believers. Read while waiting during Carol's surgery on her shoulder. Interestingly this meshes with the meditations spawned by our present national government in crisis and the scripture that assures us of the coming day when 'the government will be on His [Christ's] shoulder! Also fits with the ponderings on verses with the number 22 which relate to the transformation from a life ruled by the fleshly nature to a life governed by the Holy Spirit as in Gal. 5:22 and 2 Tim. 2:22. Roland Lane told me Common Sense refers to parallels between Israel's refusal to listen to the prophetic voice of Samuel who warned of the consequences of insisting on a King, after the manner of their neighbor nations, and the struggles of the American colonies!