Proverbs 29:2 “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”
In this world we are all very divided concerning authority because we have experienced so much of it's implementation over us through ones having a wicked heart. It is therefore quite easy to begin to feel like we cannot trust any man or woman in a position of authority these days.
And we can clearly see the effect upon the morals of the peoples over whom wicked ones rule as many blindly follow after the attitudes of those in authority over them as Hitler's soldiers did.
What really constitutes a wicked person? Does it require that a person be all bad? No it does not. All it requires is that they believe in their own way and opinions over God's ways and opinions, even if doing so unknown to themselves. For it is easy to believe we love God. But as Jesus told us, it is only the one who keeps his commandments that really does love him.
Therefore I hope that what everyone is trying to do is to become sure of what God commands of them.
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Look around us in the world, at what a mess it is. We see right now dominating the news a messed up young girl by the name of Jodi Arias who for lack of the pure knowledge of God grew to commit a monstrous act.
And we see the response of a system of justice and a news media run by men who separate themselves from any responsibility for how such a child comes to be so messed up, using the situation only to say how much better they are than Jodi Arias, giving out opinions loudly and boisterously to condemn that child to death in a way that says, "Hey, I am right and if you do not agree with me you are a dog!"
Yet, none of them, not even that prosecutor, even care how God views the situation. They may claim to care, but they do so in a way that dictates to God how he cares, rather than searching for God's true mind which he gave us by His righteousness that is in Christ Jesus. And that is what wicked rule is.
To be sure, 1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." And as Christ is God's righteousness, Christ's mind is how we are to search for and know God's opinions on matters.
I have often wondered during the course of that Jodi Arias trial how those of us here on CC feel about that case. Are we on the same bandwagon as that prosecutor and so many of these boisterous news media reporters?
In this world we are all very divided concerning authority because we have experienced so much of it's implementation over us through ones having a wicked heart. It is therefore quite easy to begin to feel like we cannot trust any man or woman in a position of authority these days.
And we can clearly see the effect upon the morals of the peoples over whom wicked ones rule as many blindly follow after the attitudes of those in authority over them as Hitler's soldiers did.
What really constitutes a wicked person? Does it require that a person be all bad? No it does not. All it requires is that they believe in their own way and opinions over God's ways and opinions, even if doing so unknown to themselves. For it is easy to believe we love God. But as Jesus told us, it is only the one who keeps his commandments that really does love him.
Therefore I hope that what everyone is trying to do is to become sure of what God commands of them.
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Look around us in the world, at what a mess it is. We see right now dominating the news a messed up young girl by the name of Jodi Arias who for lack of the pure knowledge of God grew to commit a monstrous act.
And we see the response of a system of justice and a news media run by men who separate themselves from any responsibility for how such a child comes to be so messed up, using the situation only to say how much better they are than Jodi Arias, giving out opinions loudly and boisterously to condemn that child to death in a way that says, "Hey, I am right and if you do not agree with me you are a dog!"
Yet, none of them, not even that prosecutor, even care how God views the situation. They may claim to care, but they do so in a way that dictates to God how he cares, rather than searching for God's true mind which he gave us by His righteousness that is in Christ Jesus. And that is what wicked rule is.
To be sure, 1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." And as Christ is God's righteousness, Christ's mind is how we are to search for and know God's opinions on matters.
I have often wondered during the course of that Jodi Arias trial how those of us here on CC feel about that case. Are we on the same bandwagon as that prosecutor and so many of these boisterous news media reporters?
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