Today's post from February 15, 2016

The devil knows how to bring division into a situation, and in so doing undermine and destroy the foundations of what has been entrusted to us. The evil that runs rampant on the earth today has its roots in pride and envy. There are a lot of people who are insecure in themselves; they do not hear God speaking His Love songs to them, trying to bring them back to a divine sanity and His Kingdom community. This includes some real Christians who just don't know any better. Sadly, there is a streak of hateful, fear-based arrogance that is evident and manifest in the words and actions of real believers, pretend believers, and non-believers.

Those who lean and vote Left-ward seem to be the most hateful, but they are not the only ones. (Note the hateful things spoken and written about Scalia at his death by Lefties.) THAT is demonizing your opponent in a fit of self-righteous arrogance.

"Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His." (Romans 8:9b)

And, NO, I don't see the words and attitudes and behaviors of some of the Republican front-runners as being terribly godly or Christ-like. Our Pastor is ever challenging us to be the Church, to pray like there's no tomorrow, and act like Jesus in our everyday lives. God's calling to every believer is to be a disciple of--and a witness to--Jesus. Not a theology. And certainly not of ourselves. We only impact the world when we act contrary to the behavior and value-system OF the world. There are those who claim the name of Jesus, but insist on manipulating the Word of God so as to conform to the culture of today. If you have not truly been born again, you will always seek to compromise with 'the world'. Jesus had authority (see Matt.21:23-27) because He was under the Father's authority (John 5:19 & 8:28). And it was personal, not merely propositional or based on principles. That's the pattern Jesus set for us to follow. We desperately need God's intervention in the world and in the political process. We must submit ourselves to His voice and His direction.

"Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it." (1 Peter 3:15 NLT)