"No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." 1 Corinthians 10:13
Politics became an idol for me. I was breaking the second commandment daily. I have a very wise friend that asked me about it, and I prayed for God to take it from my heart. I am justifiably angry along with many the regulation, the manipulation, the control of men, and women over a nation that once deeply loved God. That is why God has no role in politics, because men and women decide they have the right to regulate right and wrong. God gave us freedom from sin by sacrificing his son with great love and passion for his children. He gave you the choice of spending eternity in heaven or hell, and we are choosing hell. Judas chose hell in all his knowledge and witness of Christ.
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
Exodus 20:4-6
We are not entitled to God's grace unless we accept the son and become more like him (Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6.) He is the only truth that matters in our lives. We have a nation that willingly accepts lies over truth. Churches are falling because they have abandoned the truth. Families are destroyed or dysfunctional because they abandoned the truth. Friendships are broken because they abandoned the truth. Communities no longer exist because they abandoned the truth. A nation has crumbled because they abandoned the truth. We chose this life. We chose ourselves, our wants, our needs, our desires over God. We can't blame others for things that we chose to do in our own lives. We can not profess to love Christ when we as individuals we have abandoned his truth with our own morality.
10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess[a] to God.” 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God." Romans 14; 10-12
I have a very different view of my MS than I did when I was first diagnosed. He gave it to me because I chose the world over him. I chose to be taken advantage of in my actions with people and then I was hurt. I chose not to have compassion or empathy. I chose to be harsh and unrelenting. I chose to be selfish. I chose to act like a fool over and over again, because I did not know that my worth came from God. He said no you will not destroy what I have created in you. He said you will not choose man over me. He brought me to my knees. He has been very patient with me, and still is! That is is what is incredible about Him!
He showed me the pain from the ones that love me the consequence of what I was not sacrificing. I didn't want to see pain and fear in my husband's eyes again over a disease. I wanted to pick up my children, and not have to say "I can't pick you up." I didn't want to see or hear the pain in my parent's eyes or voice again. I didn't want to hear my sweet brother pleading with me to protect my heart on the phone. I didn't want my beautiful friends to witness that pain. I didn't want that because it wasn't worth it to me to hurt any of them or God.
Illness and disease is not what we can do for someone else. It is a command of what God wants us to do for him to become more like him. He wants us to face the reality of our hearts. He wants us to cherish the gifts that are front of us that he has given us; people. He does not want us as Christians to regulate or control another's life. We don't know what God has planned for that person to become. Stay out of it unless you know from scripture what they are doing is hurtful to him and others because you love them. Don't be prideful in your journey because that is what the Pharisees and hypocrites were.
" I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. 18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites,[a] and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive." Romans 16:17-18
Open your eyes to the pain that our politics is causing to the citizens of this nation. All of the choices not just your political party. This has nothing do with helping people, but everything to do with controlling people. We should maybe ask ourselves daily; What do I believe about God? We may hate him for holding us accountable. We may hate him for putting people in our lives that are willing to uphold him instead of realizing that is loving our neighbor, our family, or our friend. We may hate him for not giving us what want or think we need. We may hate him for not changing his laws to what our society wants.
The Bible is not politics. This has nothing to do with politics. This has to do with speaking the Word of God through the culture in which we live. It has nothing to do with politics. It’s not about personalities; it’s about iniquity and judgment. And why do we say this? Because this must be recognized for what it is--sin, serious sin, damning sin, destructive sin. John MacArthur
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