God is Government
God is Government
A culture that wants nothing to do with God, is the culture we are currently living in. A world that is constantly distracted, busy, and entertained has pushed the God that created them to the side. Our values have dipped. Our standards bend with whatever the culture views as acceptable. People lash out at others about their beliefs, their values, and even their jokes. To say we are divided is an understatement. I’ve lost so many people on “Social Media” this year. Every one of those people I’ve always treated well. People I’ve laughed with, worked beside, and enjoyed a season of life with. Yet because I think differently than they do or am a little bit more outspoken than they’d like me to, I am removed from their life.
It happens. When you live your truth, and happens even more when you speak your truth. George R.R Martin said “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him to be a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” Is unfollowing someone on social media a modern reflection of that? Perhaps it is. You will loose people when you’re seeking and speaking truth. The lies of our culture, media, and government is only getting darker and more corrupt.
I’ve struggled these last few months being hesitant to discuss worldly issues, because the Bible says we don’t belong to this world once we know Jesus. We don’t we are citizens of heaven living on the beautiful earth God created. God also created us to live for Him. As well as live with the purpose He has called us to do. As well as live as the person He created you to be. Meaning we are Man and Woman. He made no mistake when he created us.
The enemy will attack you. The enemy will do everything in His devilish power to make you not know who God is. One of the most vicious attacks he will make is on your identity. Whether that be gender identity, sexual identity, or even political identity. We are all created to know and love God. We are also created to obey God. Obeying God’s law is a gift to us, He gave us the law as a blessing so we know how to live our lives here on earth. Do I fall short of obeying that law? Yes. Does the pastor down the street fall short? Yes. That’s exactly the reason God sent us his son Jesus Christ. Many people don’t understand that, they can’t wrap their head around a man being God and God being man. Trust me I was in that same boat for many years until I read the gospel. Jesus heals, saves, and redeems our tainted minds, hearts, and souls. Many people before they genuinely know Christ are victims to the lies of the enemy which has his hand wrapped all around the culture we are living in right now. The enemy has the power to spiritually blind people for years, decades, lifetimes.
So when I hesitate to speak my truth on government and our culture I remember what Jesus says, Love God with all your heart, mind, and soul and to also love your neighbor. Our neighbor right now are people of all walks of lives. On facebook, our work places, our families and our friends. A lot of those neighbors have yet to be touched by the Spirit of Jesus. They are living their life going through this crazy world alone. “These neighbors” lack an understanding of God’s Grace, God’s Goodness, and God’s Power over their lives. I just want to scream at people who are living and thinking in a way that is self destructive to themselves and the people around them because I truly love people, this country, and the future of mankind. I care about the God who created us and the values, morals, and way of life he instructed us to have. Instead of screaming - I pray. I pray for the people who don’t know him yet. I pray for those who don’t take the time to know His Word better. God put this blog on my heart the second I woke up the other morning and I unapologetically felt the need to share it with anyone who would receive it. God will take it where it needs to be.
God (the author of the Bible) is what the government we know and love was founded on. The constitution was written by men who believed in God and believed in the freedom and liberty He created us to have. That freedom and liberty is in jeopardy right now. We have something going on that’s bigger than a mask, social distancing, and people getting sick. The people in charge are using this pandemic as a way to restructure and reform society into what appears to be a global economy, global control, and the words we heard growing up but didn’t really understand… a new world order. Maybe that’s extreme, and as fakebook would label me - maybe I’ma extremist.
Let’s stick in our homeland for now, the governors of these states and now even on a federal level are abusing their power right in front of us. Yet we comply and say “When there’s a vaccine we can go back to normal.” Which those who have eyes and aren’t obtuse to the world we’ve been living in for the past 6 months can see that is completely false. This feels like the beginning stages of the push for a socialist democracy. Marxism at its finest and even the creator of Marxism Karl Marx said the “stage after capitalism would be a form of socialist government.” As well as, “Democracy is the road to socialism.” Maybe we did this to ourselves by having technology do to much of the work for us. Maybe we should have tried harder to remember the name of the movie before we googled it. Maybe we do just want to sit around on our phones all day and collect unemployment checks. Maybe stimulus money, universal basic income, and universal healthcare is what the American people want. At least the new generation wants that, mine and the ones after me. Even Karl Marx said, “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” I myself like to work. Not for someone else, but for God. Which in the eyes of society make me unemployed. Colossians 3:23 “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.” repeated in my head when I used to I clock into a job I don’t love.
Now, I have not studied nearly enough of Marxism, communism, or socialism to go any further on the issue at hand. Yet what is happening right now feels like a huge divide from the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. The powerful democratic government, elites and ‘experts’ are calling for another shut down that would wipe out tons of businesses. The amount of wealth that has been disbursed to these big companies during the pandemic is astronomical and you think they want to give that up so we little fish can go back to work and make our little 40-50k a year? That’s chump change to them. Your Amazons, Walmarts, Microsoft, etc. Everyone basically with a stock option has gotten stupid rich these last few months. And the democratic candidate used, “We are going to tax the billionaires,” as a slogan to get into office. I hate to say it, but a lot of people fell for the nonexistent bait. Rich people don’t pay taxes, we do.
Republicans are notorious for being the middle class, local business owners. I believe the federal government and the party doing anything and everything for power in the White House is aware of this. They were fighting, rioting, looting, labeling, cheating, and lying so much to seize not only the presidency, but the house of representatives, the senate, and then threw a huge hissy fit when the republicans nominated Amy Comey Barrett for a supreme court judge position. You ever ask yourselves, why?
Closing Remarks
I updated this blog tonight on July 11th 2020, I originally wrote it two weeks after the 2020 election. A lot has changed, a lot hasn’t. Where my head was then was not where my head is now, but the truth is still found sprinkled in the ink. My views have evolved and my writings are only getting better. Come back to this site, podcast, or words you enjoy anytime.
Zach Rippey
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