Three
major events are happening in our area this week, in addition to all the high-powered
normal stuff.
1.
Inauguration
of President Trump: January 20
2.
Women’s
March: January 21.
3.
March
for Life: January 27.
The
guiding vision for the Women’s March includes “open
access to safe, legal, affordable abortion… available to all”
The
two groups are traveling down two very divergent roads.
The organizers
of the Women’s March and the March for Life have differing visions and
principles, and we as a community of God’s people are called to love and
respect both. How can a person love and
respect those who choose to travel a different road?
A
million plus visitors will come to our area this week. How will we throw out the welcome mat to the
diversity of American Culture converging on us?
My
feeling to want to leave town is overridden by “every Word of God”. (Mt. 4:4)
James 2:9 says, “If you favor some people over
others, you are committing a sin.”
James 2:13, “There
will be no mercy for those who have not shown mercy to others.”
James 3:16 says, “For where
strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
Our
president-elect is a polarizing figure, and there will be no end of opinions
about him, his choices and his platform.
If we
allow ourselves to be manipulated by the devil to show no mercy to him, his
opponents, the attendees of the Women’s March and/or the March for Life, and become
filled with strife, then we have opened our own soul, to receiving NO mercy
from God. Our heart will be filled with confusion and every evil work.
Becoming
opinionated towards others is very close to becoming judgmental, and once you
allow that into your heart, you have opened your heart to confusion and every
evil work.
This
is a time of testing from God and temptation from Satan. Guard your heart from influencers and
consider total immersion in the Word.
Read
for yourself the platform that President-elect Trump ran on, as well as the
defining documents for the Women’s March and March for Life (links below). We need to identify the tactic of Satan, and
keep our souls free to evangelize without condemnation, judgment, opinions and
being influenced by those with their own agendas.
Personally,
I find it very difficult to not show favoritism, and so I need to deepen my
resolve to Love God, Others and Life. I
have to recognize my human tendencies to be unmerciful to those I disagree with
and show favoritism towards those I do agree with.
I
find it difficult to remain neutral, and as a certified coach and an ordained
minister (i.e. – I should know better),
I can struggle to follow the Word of the Lord and not yield to the lust of the
flesh.
I
fall short, and if you also find yourself falling short of God’s best as
revealed in His Word, then join me in admitting my need of a savior, and my
hope in His soon return.
Come
join us in our journey of faith at Vienna Assembly of God. Visit viennaag.com.
Craig
To get a sense of the worldview of
the Women’s
March, the March for Life and President-elect Trump’s platform,
read their documents for yourself (Please don’t depend on the media to tell you
what to think about a group. Read for yourself.)
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Republican Platform 2016: https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL[1]-ben_1468872234.pdf
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