“Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that
it may minister grace unto the hearers.” (Ephesians 4:29)
Is what we are saying,
communicating, or about to suggest encouraging anyone's faith, or, is it merely
political hate speech designed by Satan to incite division and more of the
same? But the Lord said to Samuel,
“Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people
look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:1). The hate speech
of some self-proclaimed disciples of Jesus Christ within the last few years is
so faithless that what they say makes some wonder whether they truly believe
God is sovereign and omnipotent. Peter’s dialogue betrayed him and the
deceitfulness thereof was counted as a denial of Jesus as Savior (Matthew
26:73). Is my conversation today full of grace (Colossians 4:6) or hatred? Like
oil and water, the two cannot be mixed and qualify as righteousness. I may not
know much, but I do know that God was still God even during the Holocaust in
Nazi Germany, slavery and the violent enforcement of Jim Crow laws in the United States, and
the premeditated mass murder perpetrated on September 11, 2001. I trust in God
infinitely more than I will ever trust in any politician. Therefore, “I will
both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in
safety.” (Psalm 4:8) Who is so much more worthy of conversation on this or any
other day? I am talking about God who alone is sovereign and omnipotent, the
author and finisher of my faith (Hebrews 12:2). Who are any of these other
uncircumcised Philistines? Ask Chuck E. Cheese and I if we care. Selah.
Note: This post was written in
response to unnecessary and unproductive negativity expressed by subversives
using social media to perpetuate divisiveness during the second inauguration of Barack
Obama on January 21, 2013.
© 2013 Brian L Hunter
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