"The whole group of believers lived in harmony. No one called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything. With great power the apostles continued to testify that the Lord Jesus had come back to life. God's abundant good will was with all of them. None of them needed anything. From time to time, people sold lands or houses and brought money to the apostles. Then the money was distributed to anyone who needed it." Acts 4:32-35
Christians are whinning about Obama taking the USA down the road to socialism. I am one who is finding this a hard transistion, but at the same time, I cannot ignore Scripture or choose to ignore or justify Scripture to make my politics work in my favor.
If the "church" would have remained steadfast in it's purpose...we would be a different world. But sadly, Christians think they have "rights" to prosper (even when many slam the prosperity doctrine teachers) and believe that it is unjust to have governments to take what they have earned.
If Christians believed that "their possessions are not their own" and shared willingly as was the example of the early "church" .... God would not have had to use "governments" to right the wrong that we as "Christians" have done.
We find in Scripture that God disciplines his people. We are being disciplined because we have ignored God's laws and God's ways....and God uses whomever He chooses to bring about discipline and turn His children back to Him.
Fight as you may against the evils that have come upon the USA and the world...but God is not silent and God is not finished as we see Him using the unjust to bring about change. Real change. The change that will bring the nations down to fall at His feet.
We can try to blame those who don't believe in God for all the corruption in this world...but it is not them who are to blame. It is us...believers in God, believers in His Son Jesus Christ, who have the promise of the Holy Spirit to lead us...who are to blame.
May the Lord forgive us and teach us to love as He loved.
