I got a very disturbing email today. It really floored me. I won’t go into detail about it because it’s not even worth the effort to type about it. Suffice it to say that “Christians” and their fear-mongering spam about political Armageddon’s make me madder than a rhino with it’s horn on the wrong end.
Here’s my point. Barack Obama will be the President of the United States of America as of January 20, 2009. Is it neccesarily my cup o’ tea? No not really, but that doesn’t even matter, even if it were John “The Maverick” McCain being sworn in on the 20th my point would be the same. Politicians aren’t going to save the world. Government agencies and tax cuts, or increases, or more spending or less spending, more oversight or less, isn’t going to save the world. Wall Street, or main Street, Big Business or Small Business, Home Owner, or “wish I never did this” Owners aren’t going to save the world. No one in the world is going to save the world. And let me tell you why.
IT’S ALREADY BEEN SAVED!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s some really good news for you fear-mongerers, and for you who are fearful, for those who love government, and those who hate it, for those who have health insurance and those who can’t afford it, for those who love God and those who don’t; for EVERYONE:
You are in a pit. Your life is broken, and painful, and you can’t fix it, and seemingly neither can anyone else. This is the result of sin. We’ve all done it, and we don’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. But the universal problem with all of mankind everywhere ever is sin. Sin is this – We have all fallen short of the standard set for us by the one who created us…the God of the Bible (Romans 3:23). And because of this sin we find ourselves in a world that is not the way it was supposed to be. One that needs help, and fixing, one that hurts, and seems to fight against us at every turn and one that will ultimatly kill us, because that is the payment for sin…death. (Romans 6:23)
But here’s the good news, God came to earth as a man (Jesus the Christ) to live the life that you could not live, to meet the standard that God set, to live a perfect life without sin, so that He could die the death that we deserve to die, and ultimatley give us the gift that we could never ever earn – life with our Creator that we were separated from because of sin.
Here’s the deal. Politics, governement, businesses, groups, organizations, people can all do “good things”, they can all help in some way. But these ways are only to address the symptoms of the much bigger universal problem of sin. So none of them can save us from the actual problem only the symptoms that bug us. Jesus came to fix the real problem…He died a physical death on a Roman cross 2,000 years ago, was buried in a real borrowed tomb, and rose from the dead three days later so that the penalty for our sin could be paid in full, and we could be taken from sin and brokenness to righteous and whole again.
So for all of you fear-mongering “Christian” spammers – Stop your whinning about how evil people are. The truth still remains – you’re not going to save the world by convincing everyone how evil a man is…because Jesus already saved the world by dying for your sin and mine. The truth is God is good, and righteous, and just, and we should be trying to lead people to the cross of Jesus not to the fear of man. So shut up and save your energy for when you’re going to have to bow your knee and confess the truth that Jesus alone is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and He alone is worthy of our praise and adoration. Your political views are worthless if your view of Jesus isn’t right. So shut up please and stop pretending to be sending us lying, fearful, divisive, and ignorant information in the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is above every name, so please stop insulting it by acting like Jesus has a political agenda – His agenda certainly isn’t yours, and you assuredly need to read more of your Bible and less of the extremeist newsletters on your desk.
Seriously for the love of God silence yourselves, cause I assure you the day He comes back will be most uncomfortable for you.
Thanks. This really made my day, reading this.