Member after member of the Christian left has declared victory in last Tuesday’s U.S. election, as did their conservative counterparts in elections past. The reality is that Christ lost the election this year, as with so many previous ones.
He lost the election when we chose to proclaim the Gospel with our votes as a substitute for our lives…When we decided it more expedient to manifest the kingdom in our laws, in our congress, and in our courtrooms than in our neighborhoods, in our families, and in our hearts…
When, instead of inviting the unwed mother into our home and into our lives, we chose to simply force her to become a mother…
When we declared bureaucrats the carriers of justice and made our churches the carriers of cheap grace…
When we paid the pimp to clothe the whore instead of offering her the Freedom only Christ acting through His Church can provide…
When we sought to change the behaviour of people legally in lieu of offering them the transformation of their hearts…
When we placed our hope in empires of this world rather than the Kingdom of God…
When we rendered the poor unto Ceasar…
When we fled suffering allowing it to be perpetrated on the least of these…
When we mistook a welfare check for love…
When we sought the Kingdom on our terms instead of Gods…
I pray that we may repent and leave our comfort, our security, our control, our success, and the ways of this world so that the Kingdom of God may break forth more boldy among us!
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I couldn’t agree more!!!
It doesn’t matter who is in physical control of our country – it’s not Christ – so therefore as members of the Kingdom of God we(not our elected members of Congress) have to live a life of love and compassion. If they catch on, great, but we can’t spend all of our time trying to convince our pagan country and our leaders about the life that we should be living. We should be spending that time living the life that God has given us and living up to Jesus’ standards that he has set for us in the gospels. To live out those ideas that our country has once again neglected, but that God has not forgotten. We should be praying for the body of Christ to be united as a whole and for us to be agents of change for the Kingdom of God, not for our country. Let’s be the people God has called us to be and let God do the work, which for us means that we have to give up a lot in order for that to happen.
Keep on spreading blessings and peace to others.