UPDATE....Thursday morning.....this tweet minutes ago...."These horrible and politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people what are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!" May God have mercy upon us and open our eyes to this man.
The following blog entry was written on November 30th of 2008! We conservatives went more than a few election cycles....telling God to stay in the bullpen....while voting for whatever Republican was thrown up there because....well for one thing we needed Supreme Court Justices. That's part of the reason we won't even read anything out there on the real Donald Trump. Well....his great nominee wasn't so great today was he? He'll have to alter that...."I gave you two great Supreme Court judges!" We cannot depend on the Supreme Court....and we sure cannot depend on the biggest con man ever to take that Oval Office. 2008 was wonderful compared to where we are today as a people....and a Republican Party....and yet we are still using that tired slogan that this is the most important election ever. I'll vote as long as I'm on this earth....Lord willing....but only God can protect us in this coming storm.....a storm many of us saw coming for decades.....and others even longer.
I agonized for a long time over how the Christian is to deal with politics. I read books on the subject and certainly went to Scripture. I've been on both sides of the issue. Edmund Burke wrote "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Burke was not a Christian, and I am not "good," but the concept and the logic still hold weight.
Our nation is crumbling fast and most of us are the proverbial frog in the kettle. The local news from the metropolitan city that I live near started their telecast last night with three different killings among young black people. Yesterday's paper had a picture of two beautiful young children joined at the head while the surgeons were dismayed that nothing could be done for them. Every day the sufferings of people are there to remind us of the fallen condition of this world. We say that we yearn for Jesus to come back but do we? Martin Luther once said when asked what he would do if he knew that the Lord was coming back the next day, "I would plant a tree."
In the final analysis, we cannot quit on this nation. If people's sufferings are to be alleviated, if we are to return to at least being a "God-fearing" nation we have to seek God's mercy and try our best to be good and responsible citizens. This blog title has the word "conservative" in it to get the attention of who it is meant for but conservatism itself will save no one! Our hope is not in princes or their military power. Christians, who have been relegated to being part of the "religious right," must remind themselves of this every day. This does not mean that we do not support a political party or ardently work for its success but it does mean that we never alter our ethical beliefs or compromise that which is our only hope, the gospel of grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We lost our moorings in this long before we lost this last election. (2008) Our churches are social gatherings with political causes meant to assuage our guilt of not knowing who we really are in Christ. Our pulpits mention Jesus every week but rarely preach His cross for they have lost faith in the power of preaching Christ and prefer to give biblical advice on how to live. I stumble into church every week to hear the atoning power of the blood of Christ and of what He has done for me and how He will keep this poor wretched sinner despite my gravitation to dally with the world. More than anything we need to pray that ministers enter their pulpits, look over the congregation and set forth to lay out the glories and majesties of Jesus Christ present in every book of the Bible. Only having done that can they begin to exegete the passages on how we are to live.
The following blog entry was written on November 30th of 2008! We conservatives went more than a few election cycles....telling God to stay in the bullpen....while voting for whatever Republican was thrown up there because....well for one thing we needed Supreme Court Justices. That's part of the reason we won't even read anything out there on the real Donald Trump. Well....his great nominee wasn't so great today was he? He'll have to alter that...."I gave you two great Supreme Court judges!" We cannot depend on the Supreme Court....and we sure cannot depend on the biggest con man ever to take that Oval Office. 2008 was wonderful compared to where we are today as a people....and a Republican Party....and yet we are still using that tired slogan that this is the most important election ever. I'll vote as long as I'm on this earth....Lord willing....but only God can protect us in this coming storm.....a storm many of us saw coming for decades.....and others even longer.
I agonized for a long time over how the Christian is to deal with politics. I read books on the subject and certainly went to Scripture. I've been on both sides of the issue. Edmund Burke wrote "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Burke was not a Christian, and I am not "good," but the concept and the logic still hold weight.
Our nation is crumbling fast and most of us are the proverbial frog in the kettle. The local news from the metropolitan city that I live near started their telecast last night with three different killings among young black people. Yesterday's paper had a picture of two beautiful young children joined at the head while the surgeons were dismayed that nothing could be done for them. Every day the sufferings of people are there to remind us of the fallen condition of this world. We say that we yearn for Jesus to come back but do we? Martin Luther once said when asked what he would do if he knew that the Lord was coming back the next day, "I would plant a tree."
In the final analysis, we cannot quit on this nation. If people's sufferings are to be alleviated, if we are to return to at least being a "God-fearing" nation we have to seek God's mercy and try our best to be good and responsible citizens. This blog title has the word "conservative" in it to get the attention of who it is meant for but conservatism itself will save no one! Our hope is not in princes or their military power. Christians, who have been relegated to being part of the "religious right," must remind themselves of this every day. This does not mean that we do not support a political party or ardently work for its success but it does mean that we never alter our ethical beliefs or compromise that which is our only hope, the gospel of grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We lost our moorings in this long before we lost this last election. (2008) Our churches are social gatherings with political causes meant to assuage our guilt of not knowing who we really are in Christ. Our pulpits mention Jesus every week but rarely preach His cross for they have lost faith in the power of preaching Christ and prefer to give biblical advice on how to live. I stumble into church every week to hear the atoning power of the blood of Christ and of what He has done for me and how He will keep this poor wretched sinner despite my gravitation to dally with the world. More than anything we need to pray that ministers enter their pulpits, look over the congregation and set forth to lay out the glories and majesties of Jesus Christ present in every book of the Bible. Only having done that can they begin to exegete the passages on how we are to live.
