Evangelicals right now are living in what psychology would label as denial. They are assuaging their guilt by focusing on what good might have happened here or there. Barack Obama threatened to fundamentally change America but it was Trump that actually did it. He had a decent cabinet the first time and a great vice president.... today he has henchmen and hangers-on.... political paybacks for support in the campaign.... and a vice president who is the greatest disappointment that I personally have ever witnessed. In his first term Trump would say something outrageous and then be forced to walk it back. This time around he is actually doing outrageous things and there is no need to walk back anything for no one really cares anymore.
I'm sure that you recall the storyline in that Christmas classic.... It's A Wonderful Life....where Bedford Falls was transformed into Pottersville. It was unrecognizable to Jimmy Stewart's character of George Bailey as he ran through the raucous town after his weird meeting with Clarence the angel. Well America today is unrecognizable to me with Trump-this and Trump-that everywhere. It's a wild west town with no law....except that of a modern-day Judge Roy Bean who proclaimed himself judge of everything.In Deuteronomy 15 we see how in Israel....all debts were to be 'released' every seven years. A Christian of ten or twenty or thirty years has read this or heard it in a Bible study or a sermon many times....but did you ever wonder....OK....if debts are to be 'released' every seven years....then wouldn't everyone just refuse to lend money in the sixth year....only to have the debt released the next year? I've wondered that. That would be like someone going into a bank and asking for a $1000 loan because they were going bankrupt and needed to buy a new suit for their court appearance!
God's Word addresses that problem....by telling the one asked for a loan not to have that wicked thought....but give the poor man the money that he needs....for this is all part of God's plan....and He will bless that lender in everything to which he puts his hand!
It has been aptly put that if one refuses to speak out against something then it can be taken as agreeing with it. Whether they were wise policies in the beginning or not....we evangelicals....by not speaking up against the greed....are joining with Trump in taking benefits from people that need them. We are throwing the good charities out with the bad. We are joining in the Draconian measures to drag people out of Mexican restaurants....and even churches....and we are turning lives upside down by eliminating jobs....not to lower a $38 trillion dollar national debt....that was $19 trillion when Trump took office in 2016....because it hardly does anything to that debt....but to take revenge on federal employees....and make it look like he keeps his promises.
God's Word tells us that if we treat the poor and the needy and the displaced like this....then do not come to Him we when are the poor and the needy and the displaced.
