While You Fight Each Other, Who Gains Power?
God never wanted us to fight each other. Yet here we are, so busy pointing out everyone else’s faults that we’ve stopped asking ourselves:
What am I contributing? What am I doing to make the world a better place? Am I setting the example I expect others to follow? And how am I protecting the foundations Western civilization was built on?
Instead, we throw blame in every direction. And we’re never going to find our way home doing that.
Some people figured out a long time ago that divided people are easier to control. Get them to distrust each other. Get them to hate each other. Keep them fighting while those in charge accumulate more power.
You know it as divide and conquer.
Authoritarian communism gave that division an ideological framework through class struggle. The party promised liberation, then demanded obedience. It claimed to speak for the people while denying those same people the freedom to challenge it.
The state would decide. The party would define the truth. And everyone else would fall in line.
To me, that’s what it looks like when the state tries to take God’s place.
That’s why I get concerned whenever politicians present more control as compassion and more government power as the answer to everything. Whenever people are reduced to groups and encouraged to see each other as enemies. Whenever personal responsibility gives way to the expectation that the government should run our lives.
We need to ask: Does this make people freer and more responsible? Or more dependent on the people in power?
Because the government is made up of human beings, too. And I have no intention of making them my gods.
But we have to look at our own behavior as well.
Many share posts they haven’t even read. Assume the worst about people they have never met. Make excuses for their own side when they do exactly what we condemn in everyone else.
As long as they’re on the right political team.
What happened to having a conscience?
You can’t demand honesty while lying whenever it helps your argument. You can’t demand accountability while constantly handing your own responsibility to somebody else. And you can’t call yourself a Christian while acting as though loving your neighbor only applies to people who agree with you.
Of course we have to confront lies, injustice, and people who threaten our freedom. We have a responsibility to stand up for what we believe in. We also have a responsibility for how we do it.
And that includes me. I have to ask myself the same questions. Especially when I don’t like the answers.
If we want to preserve a society grounded in Judeo-Christian values, freedom, and personal responsibility, those convictions have to show up in our own lives.
In how we speak. How we treat people. What we teach our children. And the choices we make when nobody is there to applaud us.
We’re never going to build a better world if everybody is waiting for somebody else to get their act together.
So before you point that next finger - at President Trump, Jews, Muslims, Christians, the left, or the right- ask yourself: What am I contributing? Am I making the world a better place through my own actions? And am I willing to hold myself to the standards I demand of everyone else?
I believe God has more for us to do than win another argument. No, I actually know he has.
Have a great weekend. I’m grateful that so many of you are walking this path home with me. And for that, I love you.❤️🔥