Building from the ground up

I'm tired of hearing people say that we need to elect Christians to make this country better again. I'm tired of hearing that we need to pass laws to take back the country. I'm tired of the idea that the government should be in charge of our morality.

Let's face it: whether you want the government to ensure that you will have a steady paycheck or whether you want the government to ensure that your morals will be the morals of the country, you are not accepting personal responsibility for your actions. If you call yourself a Christian and yet you do not teach your children the morals and values that you want your elected officials to possess, then how will your children vote when they are of age?

See, the beauty of democracy is that the people who get the most votes are elected. That means that whoever represents the opinions of the majority will be the one who gets to represent them. Simple, right? Well, no. We are up in arms because we have elected officials that don't uphold the moral code we live by but the fact is that obviously, the majority of the nation doesn't live by that moral code anymore or they wouldn't have elected these politicians. Is that the government's fault? No. That is our fault as Christians for not speaking truth to our families, our friends and, ultimately, our communities. It is no wonder that we are where we are... we have been slacking.

Ponder the fact that 50% of marriages end in divorce. The percentage is HIGHER in the church. Is it a wonder that the sanctity of marriage is not being upheld in the law?

Whose job is it to preach the gospel? Mine. Yours. Not the government.

I'm not against Christian lawmakers. Quite the opposite. I wish that everyone in Congress was a Christ follower. But the only way that will happen is if the majority of the people voting are also Christ followers who make it a priority to care enough about the salvation status of those they are electing. We cannot expect to get someone great into office by fluke. We have to start by believing the TRUTH so deeply that we cannot help but want others to hear and believe it too. If we do that, then the problems that we are encountering in this world will diminish not because our elected officials pass laws, mandates or issue proclamations but because the majority of the nation is living by the Truth of Jesus Christ, who has set us free from the sin and filth of the world.

It cannot be left to our elected officials to CHANGE anything. Only God can change the hearts of man. And believe me, the root of the problems in this world is the sinful heart of man.