February 10, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Politics Is Everything…Ya Right!

If you watch the news on TV or listen to talk radio you might think that politics controls everything. That ‘politics’ is the most important influence on everything you do and every decision you make. Oh, how we are fooled! Sometimes I think Christians are indeed the most ignorant of all ‘human groups’ on the earth.

Politics is politics and God’s will is God’s will. They of course intersect each other at times, but politics does not drive God’s will. It is God’s will that drives politics or the lack of its influence.

I have stated this many times, ‘a Christian should never define oneself as a democrat, republican or independent’. We are Children of God and fellow laborers of Jesus Christ—this is who we are.

Nevertheless, we do get involved in politics at ‘God given times’. There are times when Christians should and are involved in the political arena. Just as Ecclesiastes says, “There is a time for everything under heaven.”

I, for one, do not like politics; I agree with Mark Twain that ‘politicians are the most corrupt dishonest individuals on God’s earth’. They are individuals with sins and faults just like all of us. I do not elevate their personhood nor am I gullible to think that they can solve my problems. However, I will say that God does choose political leaders when His will is at stake for His purposes to be done in any given nation at any given time.

We have seen this during our history and specifically when Abraham Lincoln was elected President. Lincoln’s nomination divided the nation. He was hated by half the nation. He did not have experience, was educated, but did not come from political influential parents or an influential community. Lincoln wanted only two things: that a nation should not be divided and the freedom of slaves—slaves should be given the opportunity to make a living and live by the same standards of all Americans.

Most nations were against him as President and often his own party was opposed to what he was doing. The judicial courts were against what He stood for and opposed him at every decision of his Presidency. Does any of this sound familiar to current politics. Do not, I say again, do not judge a person by their political background but if God wants that person in power. It is God’s will that we should be concerned with, not politics.

Over the next eight years of Trump’s Presidency, God wants these things to be done. My question to all Christians and the Church is—“What do you want done…God’s will or your will?”

God wants these things to be done; you can be sure of this: a spiritual revival that sweeps across America and into every household; a revival of judgment and restoration of lives within the Gay Movement; the increase of our peace and the financial prosperity for all Christians; the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem and the nation of Israel; the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem; and for Christians to be out of debt and giving liberally to the poor and needy.

Come on Church; be on God’s side not on the side of politics…this is what Jesus would want you to do.

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