Bewildered

It is difficult to watch the candidates for President of the United States exploit the situation at the border to try and win votes. The situation at the border is sad. 

It is sad that people have lost hope in their homeland and want to flee to another country. The overwhelming numbers has created a logistical nightmare that we must address.

I am confused by the many politicians who seem to be embracing the problem for personal gain and trying to appeal to our emotion rather than reason. 

It seems as if this crowd demands choice apart from responsibility when it comes to the most innocent lives in the womb. They redefined children in the womb to be fetuses, tissue, and inconveniences. They speak of the rights of women to destroy the life that grows inside of them as if it is a human right rather than a travesty. 

Men and women have choice. They can choose to be sexually active or abstain from sexual activity.  Should they decide to be sexually active, the natural consequence could be the creation of another human being.  Regardless of how you label this precious life, it is a result of two peoples choices. (I know we always want to jump to the exception of rape and incest…but for the sake of clear thought, let's stay with the choice thought here.)

 Our choices always have consequences and will affect those who depend upon us positively or negatively. The weaker will always be at the mercy of the stronger and the strong must choose to use their strength in a way that will empower them, or they have misused their strength/power. 

I understand the pictures of children in cages at the border were taken during the Obama administrations time in office. I am neither a promoter or detractor of President Trump. However, it is a political stunt to paint one administration as the problem, and this alone shows us we should discard the credibility of those doing so. 

More disturbing to me is the lack of logical thought by the Democratic candidates. They care about helpless children at the border but not about helpless children in the womb? Why do they get to choose which children are worthy of caring for or defending? Don't the children in the womb want to live a better life too? Don't they want to be united with their parents and live in a free society?

If I, as a parent, choose to disobey the laws of the land, I am punished. My punishment will separate me from my family, adversely affect their income potential and harm innocent people. The same would be true if I violate the immigration laws of a sovereign nation. 

If our nation's leaders are going to be consistent in thought, they need to reconsider all action taken against any parent that has adversely affected the innocent. You can take a picture of the children at the border, or of a child in a parentless home in a gang infested area and see the same devastation. You can also take a picture of a child in a womb and see the devastation that takes place during an abortion. 

When any nation turns from God, their people no longer have the ability to discern and all situations become platforms for personal gain. Our political leaders need to embrace the importance of all children, not just those who benefit them politically. 

There is a God with a plan, we should listen to Him.

The Light

Romans 1:22-25 (ESV Strong's)  Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

The godless are not wise; they are foolish. Just as sunlight shortens from June 21 to Dec. 21 hope fades little by little to those who desire darkness rather than light.

As the light of the sun has less time to penetrate the soil, the plants begin to cease growing and producing and hunker down to survive the winter. The ground becomes hard, the air cold, the nights long and at times, survival becomes more critical than the enjoyment of life.

As the days lengthen and the suns rays once again begin to penetrate the earth’s soil, we begin to have hope, we see life beginning, and the very process of fruit production begins. The beauty of the light begins to warm the hearts, and the soil and life switches from survival mode to satisfaction mode as hope, temperatures, and daylight soar.

Our nation’s leadership is no different from our nation’s soil. The less the light of God penetrates the souls of leadership, the harder the soil becomes. As the soul soil becomes hard, the goal switches from satisfaction in this life to survival. Hope, fruit, and life become scarce, and the masses switch to survival mode.

The only way for this darkness to prevail is to limit the light, so the goal of the godless is to limit the Word of God, the Authority of God and the voice of the prophets who speak God’s Word to the people.

Hitler limited the light, and the world plunged into darkness. Hitler counted on the popular vote rather than what was right and mistaking believed that the majority of opinion makes something right. He was mistaken and lived one of the darkest lives ever recorded.

The light softens the frozen soil of the soul, and the more exposure to the Light of God’s Word, the softer the soul. Light provides fuel for food production, thereby empowering a purposeful life. Light clearly shows us the conditions around us so that we can rejoice in the good and clean up our messes.

The United States seems to be heading into the winter of our existence as those in authority keep limiting the light. The darkness that engulfs their soul blinds them and obliterates hope, productive change, significance, and security.

Without the light of God, the weakest of this world have no voice, and the darkness that prevails in Washington DC authorizes atrocities that were, at one time, unthinkable.

Without light, our leadership appeals to survival skills rather than life skills, and the future of all people and businesses is mortgaged on the altar of the moment.

In the darkness, people cried out to crucify Christ, and as He hung on the cross, God brought real darkness over the earth so the world could get a glimpse of what they had done.

We can no longer allow our leadership to ignore the Light of God’s Word. Those who love God need to live as if they love God and enable the light of His Word and presence to penetrate our world. For now, the choice is ours.