All We Need is ... God

He will save His people from their sins. - Matthew 1:21b

The most striking difference between God and man is what each one saves mankind from.  Politicians promise to save nations from inequality, whether it is racial, economic, gender, institutional, etc.  People are way to willing to believe that they have somehow, someway been unjustly put into some circumstance through no fault of their own.  That everyone else has an advantage.

Currently in the U.S. the black communities are trying to have 1960 style rallies to protest against what they conceive as unfair consideration because of their skin color.  When I study history, I understand the 1960s protests.  In fact, I don't believe they were dominant enough and I am overwhelmed at how this didn't happen earlier and at the too many examples of the lack of consideration by the people in the U.S. in recognizing that a man is a man. 

How did skin color ever cause someone to be worth less than another?  This confounds my logic.  When I was born I had my skin, muscles, and bones and the breath of life given to me by my Creator.  That's all.  And that is all every man gets when he is born.  When I die, I will have my skin, muscles, and bones and the breath of life will leave me.  And that is all every man is going to have when he dies.  How are we not all equal?

So, with these protests, I find something remarkably different today than in the 1960s.  Today, every advanced opportunity the U.S. cannot afford is provided to everyone, and even more so to blacks, Indian descendants, women, or other minorities.  This is very, very, very different than the 1960s.  Today the problem is the lack of internal morality to own up to not having taken advantage of opportunities because you don't want to sacrifice, take responsibility and ownership of your actions or lack thereof, and accept where you are in life.  The difference between each man's birth and death is what he does from the beginning of life with his God-given abilities and circumstances until the end of his life. 

Man trying to lead mankind will tell him that HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for his condition.  It is a lie from evil.  God tells mankind that HE IS RESPONSIBLE for his condition. 

Ultimately, man either recognizes that he is a sinner and will always be a sinner and that unless he is willing to take responsibility for his sins and his need for a Savior, he will bear the consequences of his sins, OR he doesn't.  If the guy in Ferguson would have been obeying the Bible, he would be alive today.  It's that simple.  The U.S. is going to suffer through these and much worse for having abandoned absolute truth and accepting a society of unmoral truths. 

God came to save us from our sins.  We do not need politicians who promise to save us from one another.  We need leaders who will acknowledge that we are eating ourselves alive from an internal evil who's single intent is to take everything we have and destroy it, then laugh and taunt us for having believed it's confusion.  There is only one truth and that truth came to save us from ourselves.  All we need is God.