God and Country 12

Are Christians Who are Political Following God’s Plan

I am sure to an extent there are some following His plan. Many are not. What do I mean by following God’s Plan. If my outlook on life does not include loving my fellow man as I should I am not following God’s Plan.

Am I guilty of not following God’s Plan? I am absolutely guilty. Many Christian preachers I have heard down through my 83 years have said over and over that we are born with a sinful nature and must go through a set of value teaching to become good. I believe the opposite is true. We are born innocent and are taught to sin.

Jesus said to bring the little children to me for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

To illustrate there was a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘South Pacific’ that explains discrimination very well.

You’ve got to be taught, to hate and fear

You’ve got to be taught from year to year.

It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear

You’ve got to be carefully taught

You’ve got to be taught, to be afraid

Of people whose eyes are oddly made

And people whose skin is a different shade

You’ve got to be carefully taught

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late

Before you are six or seven or eight

To hate all the people your relatives hate

You’ve got to be carefully taught

You’ve got to be carefully taught

I believe our values are given to us by God when our spirit is united with our body still in the womb because God is preparing our soul to be with Him in heaven.

Decisions we make here are what make us heavenly bound or not. The pride someone has that is clearly against God personal value above what God intended condemns our soul.

To say that it depends on us to make a decision to fee the poor, educate our children, protect our country, and not be a beacon to other cultures is also saying that we have everything we have because of our cleaver action and not because God gave us the opportunity to grow and prosper.

That is pride that I can’t accept. I am causation which is to say I am white, at least for last few generations. Am a male. I cannot view the world as a Woman, A Black person, a Poor person, a Rich person, a Menially Ill person, or any of the various ways we judge each other. That makes me prejudice. I don’t want to be, but I am. The difference between me and many others is I want to be different.

Congress needs to get to the point of caring and believing, before we can win as a nation as God intended.