Right and Wrong

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,

but instead of leaving they fought

a violent and bloody war for independence,

or how a hundred years later

the nation was torn in two as brother

fought brother because one side

didn’t ‘love’ it,

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,

and 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 willed 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 of the religious leaders of the day

branded Washington and other leaders of the revolution

as criminals and traitors,

but Washington and the revolutionaries won,

and winners not losers write history,

the truth is they won

because that 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 be

on the wrong side of God’s will,

unless you presume to know more

than God himself.

So 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