Think Again

Mal 3:5 "'And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien-because they do not fear Me.' Says the Lord of hosts.

 

What happens when we don't fear God? We do dumb things. We ignore His heart. We become our own bosses and do what we want instead of what God wants. When that happens, look out. He will come and judge and be a witness against us. Tough, the witness and the judge are the same and it is the Holy God of the universe. I wonder why we think that we can do our own thing and forget what God wants? I mean, how can we be so pompous? But we are.

 

Look at the stupid stuff we do. Some people get involved in witchcraft. Now most of us would say:
"Sure. Those people should be judged by God." Not so fast. Look what comes next. Adulterers. Now in this society, that would include a ton of people. And God says: "I am going to be a witness against you and judge you because you don't fear me and you want to have sex whenever you want and with whomever you want." Not only that, but remember what Jesus said about lust. That is adultery. This is getting tough. Then look. God is going to judge perjurers. This actually means "false swearers". How many of us are guilty of doing this? Not just in a court of law, but of not telling the truth, or breaking a promise. Why do we do it? We don't fear God. Then look…and this is where it can get political. Against those who exploit wage earners, widows and orphans and who turn away aliens.

 

SB 5 is a huge issue in Ohio. Wisconsin is going through it right now as well. I understand the need to get our budgets under control and I realize that a lot of money is being paid out right now for wages and benefits and pensions. The problem is, this can be a slippery slope. If the end result is fairness, then great. But if the end result is to exploit wage earners then the Judge is coming.

 

Then another hot political issue: Immigration. Turning away aliens. This is a tough call. How do we treat people with respect, honor and dignity and care about them? This is God's heart. God's heart is that we care about those who are the little guy. God's heart is that we treat those who have no power with equity. The wage earner, the orphan, the widow, the alien. When we do we show that we fear God. When we don't, we show that we are a law to ourselves and God will stand as a witness and judge against us.

 

Obviously, as a conservative guy, this is causing me to rethink some of the things that are going on out there right now.