As I write this the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team is about an hour into their first playoff game in over two decades. It's also a single game playoff between wild card teams, so this is it! There was a day, oh there was a day, when I would be pacing the floor with every pitch. It was much the same for football and other sports. I had my teams and I went from one sport to another and from one year to the next.
The following is a very short synopsis of two of the topics I have written about in this blog over the years and there is a reason for me writing them here. On politics first...Barack Obama was a Manchurian Candidate and is a Marxist if not Communist plant in our office of President. I doubt if he has a single good feeling about America and for that matter any of the special interest groups that were conned into putting him into office. He is no friend to Israel and way too friendly to Israel's enemies...and our enemies. He has continuously ignored our Constitution, lied all along the way while he golfed and partied his free time away, which was considerable.
Let me move on to.....the church.....in America. Only God knows what a graph of the spiritual health of the church in America would look like but what we can know is that today's church would be on a very low, if not the lowest point. It thinks that it is healthy...naturally....Laodicean churches always do, but it is not. It is a lack of knowledge and a lack of shepherds and not a lack of care that ails it. It desperately needs to turn inwards to find what its moorings were once tied to, moorings broken away from in this postmodern fog covering all of America.
OK, these are two very strong statements. Why do I believe them where you probably do not? I'm not smarter than you nor am I a better Christian. It's closer to the fact that I don't have a concern in the world what happens in that Pirate game tonight. It's not that baseball is bad for anyone for it isn't....it's that sports, and many-many other things, can kill one's discernment. Do the folks in that stadium tonight realize that their nation is collapsing, that barbarians are not only at the gate but within the walls and have been handed positions of authority? If they did then they would know that their children's lives and happiness are in extreme jeopardy! Oh they might still be at the game for various reasons, and many humbled Christians probably are, but it would be scheduled into a daily regimen, with a shedding of tears and rending of garments, of continuous prayer and studying to seek discernment on why we are where we are as a nation and a church and to plead God's mercy upon us.
One last comment, a comment I have made before... if I could not express my thoughts in a different way than most others who hold to the same beliefs that I do then there would be no purpose in a blog like this. Others can do the theology better and there are numerous resources in print and on radio where one can hear the same warnings. So I bring up the Pittsburgh Pirates. Maybe someone takes offense at it but then maybe, just maybe, they might consider the thoughts I tried to convey here and reapportion their time, talents and efforts to God's glory!
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Political Thought and the Christian
