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Politicians have words to thank for
their positions. They are often long on promises and (somewhat short
on delivery). This persistent human phenomenon leads people to think
that somehow the solution to our problems is political. I mean, if
the politicians would “get out of the way” then “we could
really get things solved.” This is what creates the cheap theater
that is politics (see photo).
I firmly believe that the root of human
problems is sin. By sin I mean a broken relationship with God that
one inherits because one is human. This sinful nature is a spiritual
problem, meaning that one only addresses it in spiritual terms, in
terms of intangible indescribable interaction with the Divine. And
is there not One who is Divine?
Our counselors must point us to God,
our money won't save us, our entertainment escape will fade quickly.
Our relationships all ultimately drive us to the one relationship
that matters, our relationship with the One who created us, and who
calls us by name to return to Him.
The root of humanity's problem is sin.
The solution to sin has been provided by God, who sent His only Son
Jesus Christ to be the resolution for our sins. Jesus perfectly
revealed the Father in heaven, the Lord of all of us. How can we
hope to know our God if we won't know His Son who perfectly showed us
what he is like?
One thing that Jesus showed us clearly
is that He died for our sins, not for His own. Jesus was the Lamb of
God, who takes away the sin of the world. He taught that whoever
believed in Him would not perish, but would have everlasting life. Why would we not embrace this gift that God gives to us by His grace?
It is part of our duty as citizens to
be engaged in the political process. But we are foolish if we
imagine this will solve ultimate problems. People are good in many
ways, but we are all dead in our sins with respect to God. We ultimately cannot even help one
another until we truly repent and believe Jesus. We then enter the
life of God, as our sins are taken away, and we receive a new heart,
a transformed moral disposition, that inclines us ever more towards
the God who made us.
It is then that life truly is more than politics, more than success, more than scientific materialism, more than...
