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I first heard that from some preacher whose name escapes me now, and I think he was quoting someone else. Doesn't matter who said it first...
I think it is correct. Certainly we know our spiritual, eternal salvation does not lie in Washington DC, in government or law or legislation.
Our "salvation" (in the temporal sense) as a nation, as a people, doesn't lay in DC either.
It will come through God, through faith, if it comes to America at all.
My interest in politics has declined a great deal in the past decade, as I've gotten older. More and more I see that people's problems don't get solved at the federal, state or local gov't level... they get solved on a very different level indeed, when they're solved at all.
Sure, the government can makes things somewhat better, or a whole lot worse. Such is the nature of government.
But the cure for what ails us as a people will never be passed into legislation, ruled on by a court, or signed into law by a President.
There's only one cure and He doesn't need legislative approval to go to work fixing anyone's life... just your personal acceptance.
As I get older, the more I see my time is better spent working with individuals who are in need, than arguing about legislation or writing my congressman. I see more effect in inviting someone to my church and watching their faith grow, seeing them learn to deal with their problems from faith, than from any social program or gov't mandate or endorsement.
It's not a matter of getting the "right people" in DC. It's a matter of getting as many hearts right with God on your street as possible. My church is getting meth-heads off the street and into rehab, and then filling the pews with them when they're clean, and I see more difference in my area from that, than from anything that came out of Washington or the State House in the past twenty years.
Sure, I still vote. But I don't look for major change to come from it... when all is said and done, in the long term few politicians change things much. People engaging with people, in the name of God and with His love in them, changes things though.
That's where the majority of my focus is these days.
Maybe someone needed to hear this... or maybe I just needed to say it.
I first heard that from some preacher whose name escapes me now, and I think he was quoting someone else. Doesn't matter who said it first...
I think it is correct. Certainly we know our spiritual, eternal salvation does not lie in Washington DC, in government or law or legislation.
Our "salvation" (in the temporal sense) as a nation, as a people, doesn't lay in DC either.
It will come through God, through faith, if it comes to America at all.
My interest in politics has declined a great deal in the past decade, as I've gotten older. More and more I see that people's problems don't get solved at the federal, state or local gov't level... they get solved on a very different level indeed, when they're solved at all.
Sure, the government can makes things somewhat better, or a whole lot worse. Such is the nature of government.
But the cure for what ails us as a people will never be passed into legislation, ruled on by a court, or signed into law by a President.
There's only one cure and He doesn't need legislative approval to go to work fixing anyone's life... just your personal acceptance.
As I get older, the more I see my time is better spent working with individuals who are in need, than arguing about legislation or writing my congressman. I see more effect in inviting someone to my church and watching their faith grow, seeing them learn to deal with their problems from faith, than from any social program or gov't mandate or endorsement.
It's not a matter of getting the "right people" in DC. It's a matter of getting as many hearts right with God on your street as possible. My church is getting meth-heads off the street and into rehab, and then filling the pews with them when they're clean, and I see more difference in my area from that, than from anything that came out of Washington or the State House in the past twenty years.
Sure, I still vote. But I don't look for major change to come from it... when all is said and done, in the long term few politicians change things much. People engaging with people, in the name of God and with His love in them, changes things though.
That's where the majority of my focus is these days.
Maybe someone needed to hear this... or maybe I just needed to say it.