Are We Following God or a Deceiver?
Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are
smooth lips with an evil heart. – Proverbs 26:23
He likes headlines. He likes confrontation. He likes
to stir things up and pit people against one another. And he does it all while
proclaiming the gospel.
I am amazed at those who blindly follow his bandwagon.
Don’t they see? Can’t they step back and look at proven facts? I suppose they
could but then they would have to question their own blind allegiance.
The truth isn’t always comfortable. Just because
someone proclaims the gospel, doesn’t mean he’s living it. Wanting it to be
true, doesn’t make it so.
We want a hero but, honestly, when was the last time a
politician fit that role? We want to believe in truth and honestly. The facts
are messy.
He took a huge salary from a charity. He has a history
with underage girls. He laments about a monument while the same words hang in
dignity inside the state building. They don’t hear any of that.
Why are we so blind? All anyone has to do is hold up
the Bible and proclaim to be a Christ follower. We are determined to ignore
anything else and place him in to elected office. Again. We can’t see the sugar
coating that covers up a heart that really never seems to love Jesus first.
It’s not enough to preach the gospel. We have to live
it too. It’s how others know that our faith is real. Why can’t we see that?
Maybe because we see ourselves in him. We, too,
proclaim a gospel we don’t always live. If we question him too closely, our conscious
might force us to question ourselves. How many times do we preach a sermon we
don’t even begin to live?
One political party doesn’t hold the key to the gospel,
no matter how we would prefer to look at it. Abortion, homosexuality, death
row, poverty, money. There are many issues. We pick and choose those that make
us feel good, while ignoring those that might impact our own lifestyles.
It’s not an easy thing to hear. It’s much easier to
support someone based on party affiliation. It’s easier to look the other way
rather than research the issues for ourselves. We’d rather ignore the evidence
than admit maybe that man proclaiming to be a man of God really isn’t.
There are few easy choices in this world filled with
deceit. But when we blindly ignore proven facts we aren’t following God, we’re
following a deceiver.
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