A Thought

“Remind [your workers] of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers … shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.  And their message will spread like cancer.”  2 Timothy 2:14,16-17a

Even after the election there is still a great deal of rancor among the politicians that spreads to the constituency.  The so-called “fiscal cliff” is only a few weeks away; and while there is talk about bipartisanship, there is more talk about who is at fault.  Going forward, each side has already drawn its own line in the sand and has clearly indicated they intend to have their own way come hell or high water!  The Affordable Care Act is going forward and causing a lot of concern and consternation about the uncertainty of how this Act will affect businesses.  Again our politicians (whom we elected, by the way) are only concerned with pointing fingers and going on all the “talking head” shows trying to get their messages out that it’s not their fault, that someone else is to blame.

None of these things has anything to do with the Gospel of our Lord.  No matter who “wins” these debates, the Lord will not factor into these discussions on any level; and there will be no concern about how the people are affected.  It will only be about which political party can maintain control.  And because these things, these policies affect us all, we get caught up in the senselessness of it and join the finger-pointing.  All the while the Church continues to struggle because we are more concerned with party politics and public policy than with sound doctrine and our affiliation with the One who gave us life in the first place.

Let us choose our words more carefully.  Let us learn to talk of the things that lift others up.  Let us shun the “bad news” that the newspapers of full of, and let us learn to embrace the Good News that is eternally in Christ!  We are the messengers of our Lord’s Gospel, and we were entrusted with this awesome task when we were baptized – whether we “signed up” for it or not.  Would the Spirit of the Lord be entrusted to those who will not follow the Spirit??  It seems unlikely.

The “lost” among us will learn to believe the Good News when we prove to them there is something worth believing.  Our Lord has done what is necessary and has left to the Church what is left to be done: spread the Good News! 

Blessings,

Michael