Choose Ye This Day

I just got off the phone with one of my good friends (liberal voter) who says he and another one of my friends (also a liberal voter) are worried about me and my salvation because I appear to be going against my church leaders and I’m on a “dangerous” path; because I’m doing and saying things that seem against the current cultural grain and narrative.

They also believe I’m very “divisive” and my posts bring “negativity” with diolog I use, especially this last year. One of them even told me “Jesus wouldn’t have divided people!” like I’m apparently doing. For example, asking very uncomfortable questions like “Can you still be considered a Christian and vote to kill innocent babies in the womb, even up until 9 months?”

Hopefully I’ll be able to articulate myself, especially for those who still for whatever reason read my posts and sit and wait until they see a flaw to strike with passive aggressiveness, all in the name of love and concern.

I absolutely understand asking questions like this can sometimes be very uncomfortable and seem “negative” to people who haven’t allowed their mind to work through the cognitive dissonance they are experiencing. For example, those who are preaching to and shaming others for not wearing a mask, all the while not being on the front-line defending millions of babies being slaughtered in the womb each year.

A few quick questions-

Just because Christ is the Prince of Peace, is that the only thing He preached? Was not His very first recorded message about repentance? How must have that made people feel who were deep into gross sin? Doesn’t repentance finally lead to peace after an uncomfortable process ? Do you think that could have ignited “negative” emotion when he preached it? What about when He was justified in flipping over the money changing tables in the Temple with a whip? Do you think the money changers had a warm and fuzzy feeling being called out?

Could it just be the dark and “negative” emotions people feel, and somehow blame you for, are only the negative feelings buried deep in their own troubled soul on these topics they’ve never allowed themselves to think through? Like when people say, I stay away from politics because it’s just so “negative”? Or “religion just divides”? When in reality it’s their own soul that’s being divided by certain universal truths.

Speaking of Christ, in Luke 12: 51-53 we read, “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division…For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three….The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.”

Is this not prophecy what’s happening as I type? How many families are divided right now, why? Because it’s part of the process of not only coming to Christ, but becoming more like God Himself.

The reason why Christ always has constant peace, is because He’s not the one sinning, He’s not the one lying, He’s not the one stealing, He’s not the one killing, and He’s definitely not the one giving His vote of confidence in any platform that perpetuates any of the above.

So I ask again, generally speaking, can you be considered a Christian when you give your vote of confidence in a platform that allows others to kill babies in the most sacred of all places, the mothers womb? Especially at 9 months? Further, would you consider the mob centuries ago “good people” without blame, when Pontius Pilot forced a “vote” to ironically kill the very Being we are talking about, Jesus Christ Himself? Let’s talk about Christianity. Because if “ye have done it unto the least of my brethren (or babies) ye have done it unto me.” Which they did.

Does this mean by talking about it, and/or preaching about it, sometimes annoyingly, makes us any better and without sin? Absolutely not. We all sin and fall short of the glory of God, everyday. God knows I do probably more than most, but just because we all sin doesn’t mean we can’t fight for the ideal society God asks us to build and live in.

Talking about the most uncomfortable topics, and getting people to pick a side, is exactly what I believe God wants us to be doing. Until we build on a solid foundation, the winds and the rain will wash us away, which is what’s happening right now.

I believe as we come closer and closer towards God, certain decisions must be made in order to be ready to abide in His presence; including the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which is fast underway.

I’ve said this dozens of times and I’ll continue to say it. The devil divides and God gathers. He created us to be together. He created us with immune systems to handle a virus with a 99.991% survivability rate. I don’t believe He’s happy we are listening to the ways of the world preaching isolation. I don’t just believe, I know it. And I know He wants us to pick a side (with love) on very uncomfortable issues. How else will we become like what He wants us to become.

What I’m not saying is that my personal opinion or politics are always right, and you must choose my side; But I am saying He is always right and we must choose His side, and I hope to be on His side. Because, “He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.” Luke 11:23

We must speak the truth (with love) even if we don’t have the perfect Christ-like love we wish we had, because our freedoms and liberties, for us and our children, depend on it. Now is the day, even if it makes us feel uncomfortable. God wants us to grow into something so much bigger. And we can’t grow without a little uncomfortable soul stretching pain. All of us.

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

There was a war in heaven, God made us choose a side then, and He’s making us choose a side now.