If you read often on this blog, Mart doesn’t take a stand one way or another on politics. We normally search for the spiritual implications in life today. It would be nice if one were not so quick to jump to conclusions.

I have missed dialoging with you hope all is well,

Blessings

Xavier

It is ok to desire to be married. I believe that is something God created for us to have the companionship of a like minded best friend. It takes time to get to know someone and determine if it is the right person for you. People just want to rush into so many things that they live to regret their decisions. Then when trouble comes it is so very easy to call it quits rather to work together to achieve a common goal.

That is the same thing that is happening in our country. Some decisions have to be made quickly but some take time to measure the consequences. The consequences of any bad decision effects many people but hopefully we will find our voice. “We The People” have to start finding different folks to represent us.

I do not believe that goes against our Christians beliefs. I do not think it is wrong to want people to have morals or ethics when holding an office in the government. It is our right as members of this great nation. It is not a dictatorship or socialist government it is a democracy. IT IS OUR ROOTS!! :-)

I was not trying to assume who or what you have been praying for, I was relating to the fact that you have been praying for something for a long time. Yes so have I, I am not surprised that they are two different things, I just happened to expose what I have been praying for wondering what message God is conveying to me, if any.

But I’m with you when it comes to heartache and sorrow and all the gunk. Yes our trust in the Lord is secure.

Xavier

No one ever truly knows someone else. The only one who we can fully place our trust in is the Lord.

Mart’s topic is far-reaching in that it begs the question “What have I allowed to continue without taking a visible, vocal stance against?”

My wife and I have just begun re-reading Ezra and Nehemiah. How like the Israelites are we, christians, who have allowed our world to continue to be ‘infected’ with a fatal dose of sin under the guise of ‘tolerance’.

I am reminded that we are as 2 Tim 2:24 puts it…

“servant(s) of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, (25) in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, (26) and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.”

Likewise, Jesus taught us to ‘render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s…and to God the things that are God’s.’ We are commanded to obey civil govt only so far as civil govt obeys God. But, who is civil govt.

In America, WE,The People, are the govt. It is our responsibility to respond, interact and reward or reprimand those who represent us at the govt levels.

If we do not, we are to blame. We will be held responsible; if not in this world, it surely will be in the next.

I encourage all of us to consider 2 Timothy as a text to read and meditate upon especially in light of the current world situation and the political processes that we still have some control over.

I leave you with this from Chapt 3 of 2 Timothy:

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”(NKJ)

Huggs
frank

Went back and re-read what I wrote the other day.
I don’t believe I specified what I was praying about.
It really has to do with more of a family issue that I choose not to share here. No one really wants to read about it. Nor do I want to waste space here telling about it.

There are times when humans make mistakes that cannot be repaired because of wrong decisions made–especially when they don’t choose to change or see there is a problem. Some times things/circumstances have been wrong for so long, that if they were righted, things would feel wrong. Sometimes wrong decisions made by one family member effects more than just that one person. So, what was being prayed for effects more than just me.

I do try to listen to God, and I really really want to hear what He has to say. Next to Him, I know nothing.
Yet, God is quiet. We have to trust Him that He is in control.

It doesn’t deal with what you metnioned above.