No, I don’t literally have tables to flip. I’m just feeling angry like Jesus did when he went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. [Matthew 21:12]
There are many things I could write about to express my anger over the way my country is going down the toilet and how foolish too many people are. Those who are fooled are the ones who believe society is getting better over time.¹ I WISH I could bury my head in the sand too, but try as hard as I might, I can’t seem to get it to stay under.
What finally popped my cork bottling the more silent aspects of my views came from reading Raquel Okyay’s Political Blog post where she asks, “Mr. Obama, Where is Your True Birth Certificate?“² I was wavering on bringing attention to Victims of Law by writing about a recent personal story of injustice, but finally decided against doing so.
Corruption is everywhere. It’s just at different levels in different places. We’re left to console ourselves with the thought of voting for the lesser of evils. It’s no wonder that doesn’t work too well.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” — Ephesians 6:12
God told us we should be praying. That includes praying for our enemies. We can pray for them as we do all we can to stop their malicious activities.
Jesus didn’t go into the temple with a peace sign trying to negotiate with the moneychangers. He charged in there and physically flipped their tables! Unfortunately today shame seems to be becoming a thing of the past. In fact, I was recently told by a NT acquaintance that it’s not ‘polite’ to shame a person face-to-face who behaves wrong!
It has become a joke to refer to judges with the title of honorable now that, ”Immunity applies even when the judge is accused of acting maliciously and corruptly.” Immunity allows them to have no regard towards reproof, so where’s the honor in that?!
“Poverty³ and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.” — Proverbs 13:18
¹The concept of what’s better is relative. For immoral, dishonest, greedy people… yes, society has improved. For those living by integrity… absolutely not!
²In a comment on her blog, someone asked if we could stick to the issues that concern us. So, it doesn’t concern us when those with ‘powerful connections’ get to live above the law while the rest of us must abide by it?!
³God is referring to spiritual poverty → God’s spirit does not abide in those who refuse [His] instruction, but shame does (they just aren’t aware of it).
