These Political Times

As I sit this morning and peruse the political headlines in multiple news venues, I can’t help but be reminded at how messed up we can make the world.  I reflect upon how we started as a people.  God made a perfect world for us.  He asked us to not be stubborn and want to be as a god and do what we want to do, but to trust His Word simply because it was Him who said it.  He is the Lord and there is no other.  It was only one simple instruction of not.  All the other instructions were to go and do.  Being unable to follow that single instruction, the result was that one of the next two humans ever to set foot on the planet would kill another one.  One of the four killed one.  The decent of man into the opposition to a Holy God is quick.

Looking across the political landscape, I can’t help but wonder if there are any good men left who are willing to sacrifice their entire lives to politically lead.  Unfortunately, that is what it takes with our entertainment industry’s insatiable appetite to find the most deplorable thing about anyone who is not who they decide should be the leader and exploit it until you don’t exist.  It’s a murder in its own right without physically performing the action.  But that’s okay, we’ve made murder legal.  As long as killing is done with the perception that it is a noble action of saving yourself, it is okay, in fact you should be commended for being so good.  And so, the press is completely validated as they work so diligently to slaughter anyone who isn’t who they decide to lead, in fact, in their mind they should be commended for their heroic actions to save the republic.

It is very difficult not to see a vast conspiracy against the ideals of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution and against anything that indicates there is a Holy God.  One distinct problem we have is the majority of Americans have no stake in the game.  Being an American hasn’t cost them anything, so they expect more while not willing to risk anything.  The founding fathers risked everything just to be able to write the Constitution, let alone live by its decrees.  The original pilgrims in this land came risking all just to be able to worship the Lord in peace.  I stand agasp that anyone really thinks they are more intelligent than the founding fathers and are therefore more informed and capable of modifying the Constitution.  I personally do not know anyone or have ever heard someone who I believe capable of modifying it.  From my own reading of the writing of some of those founding fathers, they were way ahead of anyone in our society and most depended upon their faith as a foundation of their character that heavily influenced their writing. 

Yet, there is a political party whose very existence and purpose is to re-write our society so we are very far from resembling the true intentions of the Constitution.  Everyone is not to be free but to become a ward of the state, but not by force, you’ll choose it.  Through the weapons of moral relativity that enable them to define what is good and bad, control of the media so they can guide the mob, and the power to redefine justice through judges who are allowed to rewrite laws, there is no balanced control to stop the momentum outside of revolution and un-civil war.  I struggle to see how either of those are possible by the people considering how powerful and advanced the military is. 

That puts me right where God wants me.  Depending completely upon Him by believing in Him and trusting Him and nothing or no one else.  The exact expectation He had for Adam and Eve.  “Walk with Me and trust in Me for I am the Lord and there is no other!”

"Do not be wise in your own eyes.  Fear the Lord and depart from evil.  It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones." - Proverbs 3:7-8

If we want to be a healthy nation again, there is an easy prescription written here.  It's another simple instruction, if we will only follow it.