the title is about as accurate as I could guess this post will be.
I actually typed this up in March of this past year but then thought about everyone and their opinions and convinced myself it was best to save my thoughts on politics to myself. Ive become quite good at this actually, steering clear of controversial conversations because I don’t want to offend and I don’t want to be offended, or maybe I just have been afraid. But anyway, God gave me these thoughts and I think it’s time I put them out into the world to either hate, or appreciate, either way, it’s fine with me. -Kate
Everybody wants something to change in this world. EVERYBODY.
Every political party has their ideas of what’s right and what’s necessary and every individual says “we need to change this policy!” “We need to be regulate this and not worry about that.”
The truth is no one is going to achieve anything without Christ.
As many years as the world has left before Jesus returns, there will always be someone hurting, needing, fighting, hungering and thirsting. And as long as everybody keeps pretending they’re right and everyone else is wrong, the worse off it gets.
If people won’t admit a need for Jesus, a true need – the kind that says “I’m lost without HIM” the kind the admits the true condition of their heart – flawed, and broken… if we won’t admit these things then we continue to DENY Jesus.
We deny His death on the cross, we deny His sacrifice for love, for freedom, for a relationship with the Father that leads to bringing the kingdom of God down to Earth.
I wish everyone would see their brokenness, that we can’t all be right, that we don’t see eye to eye because we haven’t accepted the fact that everyone is so broken inside, that without Jesus everyone sees through their own, sinful, hurt, blurry lens. And I wish everyone could see that we’re probably all wrong in one way or another.
No political party is ever going to be representative of God’s heart. He isn’t represented by a President or a Monarch or a Dictator. His heart isn’t to govern and dictate to a hateful, split world of people, or to lay down punishment and tragedy. His heart is to see us relinquish OUR heart to Him. That’s all. To give up ourselves, our identity, and our definition of peace. He is peace. He is hope. He is love.
