It goes against human nature to evaluate a person objectively. People prefer to first find out if someone agrees with their primary ideas (usually meaning their political side on issues). If that person does, then you can just about bet nothing negative will ever be said about their ’saint’. If, on the other hand, that person is not ‘agreeable’, then nothing positive will ever be said about him (or her). How retarded is that?!
Even though I do express some of my concerns through my blog, most of my passions remain unpublished. Passions should usually remain private because of the passiveness embedded within. No matter how much someone might examine or re-examine their thoughts, there will always be some remnant of prejudice yet remaining.
Voting is a choice and who gets elected results from choices made. People like having a sense of control over their destiny. The most repulsive thought to most would be knowing that God sovereignly controls everything and everyone. What’s an abhorrence to some, can be peace for others.
I can’t be the only person who finds comfort in knowing that God ultimately rules over everything man does. Sovereignty is a complex subject that’s impossible to understand without God’s spirit to enlighten the mind. The bottom line is that it’s either going to make a person feel angry or calm.
How many people can enjoy God’s serenity in situations they can’t control? How many even know about this part in Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous prayer: ?
“Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;”
No one other than God can direct thoughts.¹ People say what they will, hoping that their words are almighty. Most of the time, people don’t even realize that what they write or say can be actually having the opposite effect. Usually they are the ones who are so sure of themselves that they don’t even think (or care?) about what impact they’re having.
Whatever man might will, God must appoint it to be. No ruler is independently able bring his own purposes to pass even though it may seem he has all things at his command.
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” — Proverbs 21:1 (King James Version)
“Just as water is turned into irrigation ditches, so the Lord directs the king’s thoughts. He turns them wherever He wants to.” — Proverbs 21:1 (The Living Bible)
¹Even though God permits Satan to do evil in this world, God is not to be blamed for it. God ‘owes’ no one anything.
