Everyone must submit himself to
the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has
established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
Consequently he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God
has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. Romans 13:1-2
In America being poor is a death
sentence,
in America
your pocket book determines
the level of respect you receive;
in America you either love it
or leave it.
Sometimes it is forgotten
that this nation was founded by people
who didn’t ‘love’ it;
fighting a violent and bloody war
for their independence,
or that less than a hundred years later
the nation was torn in two
as brother fought brother,
it makes me wonder just who
the real patriots are,
those blindly accepting
whatever is thrown at them by a government
growing increasingly powerful and intrusive,
or those who question every policy and decision,
but to be perfectly honest;
I don’t care one
way or the other.
This nation and this government
are only
a result of what they are allowed
to be,
by a God who created all things,
it does not have any more power,
wealth or wisdom
than Rome
or Greece
or any of the other
great civilizations before it;
this nation
exists only because
God wills it to exist.
In colonial days there were
preachers
who stood up in their pulpits and
declared
that those who didn’t ‘love’
being a British colony
should just leave,
many religious leaders of the day
branded Washington and others
as
criminals and traitors,
but Washington and the
revolutionaries won,
and winners, not losers, write
history,
they won because it was God’s
will,
plain and simple,
so be careful who you call a
criminal,
or who you tell to love it or
leave it,
because you just might find yourself
on the wrong side of God’s will,
unless you presume to know more
than God himself,
don’t get caught up in who is
right
and who is wrong,
try not to take sides
in the affairs of men at all,
seek the will of the Lord
first
and trust in Him without leaning
to your own understanding,
and remember His command for us
all:
As
the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you
obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s
commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in
you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I
have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life
for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call
you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead I
have called you friends, for everything I have learned from my Father I have
made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to
go and bear fruit – fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you
whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other. John 15: 9-17
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