I had my own cocktail of mixed feelings. Then, I have been thinking about how my ongoing response to all of this should look. As has become the norm when I'm formulating a position on anything, I consulted the scripture to see what that says. There I found what I thought to be a helpful text.
...every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. - Matthew 7:17-20
The placement of this here snippet of divine wisdom is helpful as well, it follows those well known words, "judge not, that you not be judged". There certainly is more to this whole thing than what I have shared, but it is a good place to start in contextualizing everything.
Let's see what kind of fruit is produced by the incoming government and assess the outgoing on the same basis. Make sense?
2 comments:
Dave...this post is too vague. I'm really interested to hear more of what you think about things!
Yeah, I guess it was just a general thought about how I think we ought to respond to our government and elected officials. It sure seems that there are a lot of predictions being made as to how the incoming government will do. I don't see a problem with playing that game. At the same time when we decide to get serious in thinking about it, we should remember to evaluate based on the 'fruit' that is produced. Same goes for the outgoing government. Is the fruit of the last 2, 4, or 6 years good or bad?
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