October 22, 2008
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My heart is saddened by the Godlessness and the hopelessness of my country. Sometimes I want to grasp my neighbors by their shoulders and shake the truth into them, that any nation that builds itself without good feet will trip and fall on its face—that is to say, when God said "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord," he wasn't deciding something out of the blue. It was unavoidably true: If a nation recognizes the infinite-personal Creator God as the source of all things, including law, society, the breath in our lungs, even the universe we inhabit, then the nation will be blessed as sure as gravity pulls things together. This becomes tearfully true to me when I look at my country in the throes of election, unsure of what is best for the nation.
I think I figured it out: If a nation follows Enlightenment thinking (think Thomas Jefferson) which says that Man is the measure of all things, then that nation will destroy Man because it has an improper understanding of the purpose behind the universe and the way that the Cosmos is designed. If a nation follows Christ's thinking, which says that God is the measure of all things, from which all things come and for whom all things are created, then Man will be saved because he finally understands his own purpose.
And then, as I consider that, I realize that it doesn't matter if the whole nation understands that or not—it doesn't matter who gets elected to office, whether the nation remains vaguely capitalistic, republican, democratic, or communist or even whether the United States of America continues to exist—what matters is that I understand my own relationship to God. I need to understand that I was created by God, not as the greatest thing ever but as His creature. It becomes my right and responsibility to make God the boss of me, because that is where He is best praised and thus where I am most praiseworthy.
Talk about a lift of spirit! Suddenly, I'm not nearly as concerned about the election!
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Yay! In that case, perhaps you'd be interested in write-inning Don Quixote? Sure he's off his rocker, but at least the populace doesn't expect to take him seriously! ^_^
But seriously, Good Point.
Define "God"- if a person follows a personal God whose values espouse personal & societal accountability, is it still to be considered "godlessness"? Just a thought from a pagan also concerned about the election- and that neither candidate seems especially interesting or useful.
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