“I am the Lord your
God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have
no other gods before[a] me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the
form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters
below.” Ex 20:2-4
Nowadays, I really don’t enjoy politicizing things very much. I
don’t have a desire to draw a line and then have to be talked down to,
patronized because of my perceived bias or white privilege, disallowed an
opinion for any number of newly coined reasons that typically are tied to not
my ancestry, but rather skin color. Or, maybe it has something to do with my
political views, my Christian World view, or my intolerant, homophobic,
misogynistic, capitalist, racist, or blah.. blah.. blah views.
I’ve lost my patience for anyone that tries to put me in a box and
dismiss my views as irrelevant, antiquated, or counter to their group-think
(read mob) mentality.
For goodness sake people… think for yourself for a change!
The other side now almost always seems to roll down this
ridiculous slippery slope filled with unsupportable non-facts and weak
arguments that sadly (for them) all seem to lead to one conclusion…
“never-Trump”, he’s not my president, “Impeach!!!”
What the other side often can’t hear coming from me or any other
reasonable conservative, due to their incessant screeching and attempts to
drown us out, is that many of us don’t exactly love Trump, nor agree with his
often loose lips… both in front of a mic, or on social media (in particular,
Twitter).
However, they also foolishly write we conservatives off because
they miss many (any?) of the accomplishments that “our president” has managed
to broker during his hotly contested presidency.
Now, that was a very convoluted and rabbit trail sort of thing to
do when I just want to address something that I heard the lieutenant Governor
of Texas speak about the other day.
Now this truly is a dead horse that I’m beating here… Truly…
Guns…
People… People… People…! They are not the problem folks.
It’s the person standing behind the gun. The person pulling the
trigger. It’s their heart condition. It’s their mental condition. It’s their
spiritual condition.
If you do not address the people problems that lead up to these
tragedies, then they will never stop and they will only continue to increase in
their frequency and the body count.
The lieutenant Governor of Texas made a lot of statements on a
news program that I saw a clip of.
The gist of what this gentleman was talking about centered around
what has become like a tragic comedy of political posturing and over
politicizing every time one of these mass shootings occurs.
The political bantering and in-fighting is just a giant and
irresponsible waste of time.
Though there may be a better way to enforce gun laws and a better
way to control background checks and how the findings in those checks are used
to determine a person’s eligibility to purchase a weapon, all of the checks in
the world aren’t enough to guarantee that a person who buys a gun in all ways,
legally, won’t later snap mentally and commit a crime with that gun.
The core argument of this man was this though: Our media has so
attracted our young people and so glamorized violence and killing, that when
many of them choose to play video games (for instance) rather than going to
meet with God at church on a Sunday, then what result do we actually expect to
occur in our society?
My observation is this: We gradually spiral out of control. We
give up just a little more of the good that dwells within humanity, because of
the image of our creator that we bear.
As a nation, we have allowed God to be kicked out of our schools,
thrown out of our halls of justice and just about any other place where He
could have a positive influence on our behavior. We cannot expect that we can
maintain any long-term hope of positive change through legislature alone.
You cannot legislate nor regulate the human heart.
God has said that our hearts are ultimately sinful (we miss God’s
mark). In other words, our hearts are wicked and drawn towards evil.
We are in need of a savior and His name is Jesus Christ.
There is no victory over the evil in people’s hearts without God
in the solution.
You can disarm this nation and remove every privately owned gun
and people will still find ways to commit these evil acts of violence on each
other.
Only with God’s help, intervention and intercession can we ever
hope to win the war against gun violence in our nation.
"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately
sick; Who can understand it?” Jer. 17:9
We cannot trust to our own hearts or our own understanding. We
must go to God for His guidance on solutions to reducing gun violence in our
nation.
As followers of Christ, we must all seek to become His hands and
feet to serve humankind around us each and every day.
We must be the light and the salt to a lost and misguided world.
So, dear old World… you may choose to ban God in many of the
venues that you think you control, but I have news for you. Your control is an
illusion.
The more you attempt to push God out… the more that those who love
Him will seek to shine His truth and love for all others to see and experience…
Seize the day!
Mike <><
