A People at War

If we didn’t know better, we would say our country is at war.  Resources and services are threatened and withheld.  We are ordered to comply or suffer.  What does that sound like to you?  Invading kings would often withhold services.  They would not allow food or supplies in.  They would stop up the water sources and sanitation.

I got into a study this morning based on the reports and cries of the common man against our government.  With what are we being made to buy our society back?  Healthcare!  But so much more than that in reality.  Think about what they are saying and doing.  Think about what they are withholding from themselves.  Nothing.  They are not threatening their own income and savings and freedoms.  They are supposed to be our public servants, but they serve no man.  Our own insurance is being depleted and changed by their grand idea.  Their insurance is so expensive, we will have nothing left. 

They are set on redistributing the wealth, but what happens when they all but destroy our economy and no one but the government has any wealth.  Do you really think they have our best in mind?  Come on; think!  Look at the patterns.  Look at the present actions.  Are we really ready to ‘believe whatever they say just because ‘they’ say it and they have us in a bind?

It is bad enough that we are told “Your government will be shut down unless you comply.”  But the truth is this is a precedent that we cannot afford to set.  Are we to be held hostage every time there is a disagreement on our rights and freedoms?  Are we to be ‘shutdown’ unless we comply and give up our say?  Are we to become a government by the few, the powerful made so by puppeteers?  Are we ready to become a society subject to a ‘divine right’ ruler not seen since the French revolution?

Do not think they will not try to tell us how and what we may believe once they have told us what we may and may not say and do.  Do not think that they will not determine who we may be, what we may have and who our children may become if we allow that.

If you think I am overreacting, stop drinking your tea and start looking around.  This is not a video game that you can reset if you lose.

A wise king in Israel after being told the plan of attack said “Is there not a man of God that we can ask?”  Hmmmm.  Perhaps we must all become ‘men and women of God’ attuned to a different voice, led by a different ethic. Perhaps we should be ready to give an answer that makes sense and yet sometimes God's answers are based in a different kind of 'sense'.  Perhaps prayer and more are required of the people who really believe in God.  Perhaps it is time that we found out what we are called and equipped to do in our world.  If it is prayer, do it with sincerity.  If it is politics, do it with integrity.  If it is management, do it with fairness.  If it is revolution, do it with righteousness.

It is not time to complain, but it is time to evaluate.  It is not time to cry, but it is time to assess what we can do to retain what freedom we have left.  Wisdom must come forward.  People must be given hope and led forward.  I’m tired of the whining and sarcasm.  I want truth and action.  Who will bring it?  We must open our eyes, open our minds and get busy.  It will not be easy.  But we do have precedence if we are Children of God.