Change

I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent but I am easily confused by the “politics of change.” Politicians who are against tax increases vote for tax increases when it is expedient to do so. And vice-versa. Seems to me the White House has been loudly proclaiming we can’t, under any circumstances, afford to continue the “Bush Tax Cuts,” but now is supporting keeping them “because we can’t hurt the American people with a tax increase “as we recover from this recession.” What? Which is it? Can’t one just have a “principle” and stick with it regardless of the “political wind.”

While I don’t really understand the foibles of political thought, I do understand the Church of Jesus Christ. We are not sufficiently different from the political scenario. We “llove” each other when it is expedient to do so, and we promptly dismiss others  when they don’t conform to our expectations. We forget that llove is not what we say, it is what we do! And we are required, called, empowered, enabled, expected to llove with absolute consistency day in and day out.

“That’s impossible,” you say. Right – for us, but unless I misunderstand the Scripture (and I don’t), all thing are possible with God. It comes down then to who is in control of my life, my thinking, my heart.

Politicians are  inevitably scary in their vacillations. Let make sure the Church of Jesus Christ (you and me) isn’t.