Mark Carven Olds

Nation Building Mark Carven Olds

The pathway of Nation Building will not be for everyone. This cannot resound as a statement of exclusivity based on a prejudicial bias. Only those individuals, who shall dare to believe that God shall always exist as a Covenant-Keeping God, can take the steps toward such an adventurous pilgrimage. Most of the Nation Building antagonists will demonstrate a fear of change. The pathway toward Nation Building will reflect a sojourn of mobilization: both of people and ideology. Nation Building should not be mistaken as a stasis pathway, but an encyclical that shall point toward movement for both beliefs and people. The course of movement shall summon action, opportunity, and capability. Nation Building will not produce a scenic route with a preset minimum cruise control. The volume of activity associated with Nation Building will be an escalated projection as well as a rigorous enterprise. Hard choices will be incessantly uncloaked before an individual. Hard choices will serve as the passageway to Nation Building, reflecting a method or mode that can change values, morals, doctrinal positions, and disciplines that shall illustrate a counter to what may currently reign as vogue. "Pathfinders," who shall espy the thoroughfare to Nation Building, will embark on a search for justice, liberation, and salvation. "Pathfinders" have not chosen a sojourn that simply will present a meandering voyage along the contemporary social stratum. "Pathfinders," who can detect the difficult road to Nation Building, will trod a passage that has been laced with a high demand for personal passion. Nation Building shall command an advanced complexity. "Pathfinders" will discover a course of action that shall convoke the inner resources, summoning an exploration into previously unraveled regions that can mark out a new route. A new route shall come into existence toward a theocratic, interdependent, and peaceful society. It will strive to create a roadway devoid of unclean and impure thoughts.1 No chance travelers can stumble onto this thoroughfare. "Pathfinders" will most likely come forth as leaders, teachers, and individuals who have been engaged in direct action. These character traits can identify with the commitment of: "willing to go the distance to make a difference." That difference shall produce Nation Building. Nation Building shall represent the formal teaching and activities that will lead to the structure and infrastructure conducive to nation emergence. These factors shall also exhibit the foundational instructions to form the Immanuel Nation In Christ (INIC). "Pathfinders" will lead others to nationhood. Their footprints should trample down the unfamiliar and their related steps ought to pound a clear imprint for others to walk securely. This would then lead to an implementation of the psalmist's statement, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."2 Nationhood shall epitomize a lofty and monumental aspiration for a populace treading the illuminated vestiges of a new and profound initiative. Nationhood has developed the attainment objective that has been declared by the populace. Nation Building will reflect the result of a sustained collective effort of Nation Builders. Nation Builders have come into view as members of the populace who can identify with a commitment to further the cause of nationhood emergence. They have chosen to follow the enlighten corridor of "pathfinders." Nation Builders shall engage in the task of assisting in the development of the INIC. Not everyone shall possess the moral fiber that will enable them to withstand the pressures of non-compromise or the spiritual maturity to resist coercion and walk defiantly along the pathway of Nation Building. The possessor of a slave mentality will instantaneously face disqualification.