…..they lie all the time, about absolutely everything.
We kneel before the Lord each week, confident that our sins are being forgiven and our minds and souls nourished with the Word. What never comes out, however, is how quickly the sins return. If you went to your pastor/priest/minister, and told him everything you felt guilty of, could you even cover all of it? This is a conflict that has been going on in my mind for a long time. I love to confess my problems to holy men, but you know what? I go right back into my sin-filled rut almost immediately.
The bible does a tremendously good job of telling you what to do. Church is a great reminder. But you know what? In order to really cover it all, you have to do something I like to call constant communication. That means that the Lord walks next to me, sits next to me, lies next to me, goes to work with me, drives with me, flies with me.....you get the picture. So what does that amount to? Well, I’m never alone, which is nice, but it also means that every time my mind falls into its sins, I have to answer for them immediately. I confess it immediately. I’m forgiven immediately, assuming my confession is sincere, which is not always true. Sometimes I disagree with a sin, and I have to sit there and debate it with God. I never win.
Why do I bring this up today? Well, today our country proved that we are the best at murdering. We kill and we kill and we kill, deciding that war is the right thing to do. We are the best at war. We practically invented modern warfare. But you know what? It is just a bunch of sins, stacked upon another bunch of sins, on top of a pile of sins that is higher than anyone can imagine. How did we get into this?
We started with a war that actually kind of made sense, the war for independence from England. That war had some rationale that in a lot of ways can be justified. We wanted a say in how our laws were made. We did not want to be taxed unfairly. So when Britain came over to force us into compliance, we sent them back in boxes. The problem is that the killing itself, regardless of reason, is a sin. So here we had a war, packed with killing, that we were able to justify. During the next 200 years, the rationale changed with each war. But the rationale of the sin did not. Sin was still sin, and regardless of what we packaged it as, that never changed.
I know folks from all over the world end up on this blog. What I want to tell all of you is that never will I ever justify killing outside of self-defense. My country’s government has been wallowing in war sin for so long, we have become indebted to it. There must come a reckoning. There will come a point where it will all backfire on us. My very simple request to you, is that when you picture Americans, please understand that many of us do not want any more war. But it seems that no matter who we vote for, or what we do, we constantly go down the path of violence.
My government is not me. I work for God.....and I always will!
We kneel before the Lord each week, confident that our sins are being forgiven and our minds and souls nourished with the Word. What never comes out, however, is how quickly the sins return. If you went to your pastor/priest/minister, and told him everything you felt guilty of, could you even cover all of it? This is a conflict that has been going on in my mind for a long time. I love to confess my problems to holy men, but you know what? I go right back into my sin-filled rut almost immediately.
The bible does a tremendously good job of telling you what to do. Church is a great reminder. But you know what? In order to really cover it all, you have to do something I like to call constant communication. That means that the Lord walks next to me, sits next to me, lies next to me, goes to work with me, drives with me, flies with me.....you get the picture. So what does that amount to? Well, I’m never alone, which is nice, but it also means that every time my mind falls into its sins, I have to answer for them immediately. I confess it immediately. I’m forgiven immediately, assuming my confession is sincere, which is not always true. Sometimes I disagree with a sin, and I have to sit there and debate it with God. I never win.
Why do I bring this up today? Well, today our country proved that we are the best at murdering. We kill and we kill and we kill, deciding that war is the right thing to do. We are the best at war. We practically invented modern warfare. But you know what? It is just a bunch of sins, stacked upon another bunch of sins, on top of a pile of sins that is higher than anyone can imagine. How did we get into this?
We started with a war that actually kind of made sense, the war for independence from England. That war had some rationale that in a lot of ways can be justified. We wanted a say in how our laws were made. We did not want to be taxed unfairly. So when Britain came over to force us into compliance, we sent them back in boxes. The problem is that the killing itself, regardless of reason, is a sin. So here we had a war, packed with killing, that we were able to justify. During the next 200 years, the rationale changed with each war. But the rationale of the sin did not. Sin was still sin, and regardless of what we packaged it as, that never changed.
I know folks from all over the world end up on this blog. What I want to tell all of you is that never will I ever justify killing outside of self-defense. My country’s government has been wallowing in war sin for so long, we have become indebted to it. There must come a reckoning. There will come a point where it will all backfire on us. My very simple request to you, is that when you picture Americans, please understand that many of us do not want any more war. But it seems that no matter who we vote for, or what we do, we constantly go down the path of violence.
My government is not me. I work for God.....and I always will!