As I See It, darkness spreads over our land like a blanket being pulled over our hearts and minds as our nation settles down for a night full of bad dreams. Our collective heads are pulled under the covers in hopes that we can hide from the evil that looms on the other side of the blanket. In the greater darkness, we have hope that evil just won’t notice us lying there, vulnerable and shaking in our fear. School shootings, police ambushes, crazed and disgruntled employees massacring fellow workers, and abortion-mill butcher shops destroy life every day in our country. Politicians are afraid and offer old solutions that have failed to stop any of this. Occasionally, authorities get wind of a plot before it happens and can stop it, but more and more plots are made every day. Why are we enduring such tragedy in our nation every day?
Because our way of thinking needs changing. Our policies are helping evil to spread rather than serving as the deterrent they are intended to be. If we understood how to think, we might be able to enact and enforce good policy. Of course, how we think affects our efforts at enforcement as surely as it affects our enactment of good policies. Take for instance, we have a Federal law that makes marijuana use illegal; while two states have made it legal. Our president refuses to enforce federal law in those two states. Likewise, several states have enacted laws to restrict abortion and abortifacient by defunding public support of abortion mills. Our president has fought to get more money into these butcher-shops. Our right to own guns and carry them is a constitutionally protected right; yet states and our federal government think that we need to take that right away – it will somehow keep criminals from breaking the law with guns (like criminals care about the law). Meanwhile, our Federal government has established a “politically correct” environment whereby Christians are denigrated, demeaned, and denied their constitutional rights to express their beliefs publicly; yet those who embrace the Islamic “Sharia law” are protected, our children are forced to practice Islamic worship rituals in public schools (as “social studies”), and their prayers are allowed as openers in public meetings and policy sessions of all levels of our government. Our schools are pumping tons of money into “anti-bullying” programs, “anti-suicide” programs, and the like, while bullies are protected and the victims are told to “grow up” in our society. Parents are losing their rights to educate their kids and are being forced out of the public educational process when courses or lectures or any immoral things are being taught. The state wants our kids.
Our way of thinking needs changing. We have got to wake up and start seeing things through the eyes of the Bible – the ONLY 100% reliable lens there ever has been. With countless prophesies fulfilled as promised, frightfully keen insight into the depravity of the human heart, and the unfailing prescriptions for reversing these tragic hearts in families and societies, isn’t it time we start looking again at it for our answers instead of silencing those who do by making the Bible into “hate speech”? Could it be that our nation, who once looked to God for blessing and policy guidance, might again find peace and Divine blessing in our land while keeping evil at bay? Maybe we can see things as they are, trust the right thinking of Scripture so that we can enact and enforce right laws that work – backed by the help of Almighty God, Himself? Could it be that, by the transformation of the human heart as promised in the Bible through Jesus Christ, we might have public policy makers and citizens, judges and juries, laws and lawyers that can accomplish their jobs for the good of others rather than the corruption of selfish gain? Perhaps then we can see the source of the problem and propose solutions that work. Our way of thinking needs changing – and Jesus Christ is the only one who can bring that about.
But Jesus does not force Himself or His ways upon us. He lays it out, and we choose to accept or reject it. He says, “Trust me.” Those who do are blessed, while those who don’t have chosen curse. This is HIS creation – and so are we. He is the creator, so He sets the rules as to how things work. Denying Him and His laws and truth, denying He even exists, will not change the reality of His authority over His creation. Collectively, we don’t have any bargaining power with God. He is the Supreme Theocrat in charge of our world. We cannot usurp His authority. It will not work. Our experience in creation will be very short-lived compared to our existence on the other side of the grave. Our theories about that future, eternal experiences are meaningless – especially given the Light of His Word on that matter. We will one day, each of us, face Him personally. We cannot theorize our way out of that meeting. Our world-view matters, and we must answer for it in that meeting. Trusting Christ today will make that meeting fare far better. But our society consider those who do to be “fools” while purporting themselves to be “wise.” The Bible says He makes the “wise” into “fools” in the end. So we need His way of thinking – which is really not a NEW way of thinking, just a change in our way of thinking. As I See It, this is our only hope.
Holler for Jesus,
Greg Yount
First Baptist Church of Bakersfield: http://tinyurl.com/weR4him
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