| Daily Thought — January
31, 2008 |
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| LIVING THE
SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
Remind the
people to respect the government and be law-abiding,
always ready to lend a helping hand. No insults, no
fights. God's people should be bighearted and courteous.
(Titus 3:1-2 — The
Message)
Boy does this sound like the church
that America knows? We have people bombing abortion clinics,
publicly chastising our leaders, and breaking local building
codes and fire laws, all in the name of “ministry” and “helping” others.
Jesus made it clear to give to the government what is
theirs and to God that which is His. We are to follow
and obey our governments unless what they ask us to do
is in direct violation of God’s laws (I am not
aware of any such request as of yet made of the church).
We are instructed to pray for our leaders, that God would
have influence over their hearts and choices. We shouldn’t
verbally tear them down around the water fountain at
work with our co-workers or friends at church. These
actions do not reflect the heart of God—the heart of
love. We are to love our leaders as we love ourselves,
as we love our families and as God has loved us. He loves
them and died for them as well as you. When the church
rate of divorce is as high as the world’s, when
the percentage of people who struggle with drugs, alcohol
or pornography is the same as the world’s, when
the church’s leaders are found to have sexual “indiscretions” in
their lives just like our government leaders, we the
church are in no position to be passing judgment on the
world and our leaders. Remember Jesus said first remove
the log from your own eye so you can see clearly to remove
the speck from your friend’s eye. And even if we
did not have all of these problems we still are not given
the freedom by God to judge, ridicule and disobey our
leaders.
We have an election coming up this year and no matter
what the outcome I know about half of the people will
not be happy. But we must remember that God says it is
He who puts leaders into power and it is He who brings
them down. Whoever we end up with, for whatever reason,
will be who God wants in power at this time. They will
be our leader even if we did not vote for them It will
not be for us to question why but live and do as God
asks, to “respect the government and be law-abiding,
always ready to lend a helping hand. No insults, no fights.
God's people should be bighearted and courteous.”
Live intentionally, purposely, free and with passion,
Pete Reinbold
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