Friday, January 23, 2009

Dont look in the mud for a bar of soap...

I am a believer in the fact that God is totally and ALWAYS in control.

I realize that people are very upset about the abortion funding that is going on. Everyone wants to blame our new president, but we need to take a look at the real problem.

What is the real problem?

The real problem is that this country is full of lost and hurting people. Modern biblical scholars often criticize Christ for never speaking out against slavery...well for one thing, slavery in Christs day was very different than slavery was in this country. It was a way to start over and to pay back debt in a lot of cases, and under Jewish law, all slaves were to be released every seven years during the Jubilee. Slavery in this country was against a certain race of people, and it was a life sentance....very different. But now I am off topic. Back to abortion.

When peoples hearts are forever changed by the Holy Spirit, they change. Things that never seemed wrong suddenly do. So my theory (and I believe Christs theory on abortion) would be this. That we need to be light and salt to the world, not to just protest, but to live our lives for others, so that they will see Jesus in us and fall under conviction. Slavery in this country came under attack because the average people in America started to wake up and see how wrong it was. They were convicted of the sin of improper treatment to their neighbor. Slowly they fought to overturn laws. People arent listening to the "Church" as a whole, because we preach to their face and live like hell the rest of the time. Start serving God...and worshiping Him in spirit and in truth and He will heal our land......It is not Obama's job to heal something. He is a man, a flawed, and sinful man. Stop looking to him to act like Christ.

We also need to remember that to God...sin is sin is sin. Christ said that to hate in our heart is to murder. We run around pointing our fingers at certain groups of people...all the while we hate members of our own family. Lets worry about the planks in our own eyes....it is time to clean up our hearts before we demand that of others.

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.