Well as I was blog surfing this morning I came across a blog on President-Elect Obama and his choice for the pastor that was going to lead the invocation prayer at his inauguration.  For me that was a welcomed move by the President-Elect (not that my opinion matters.)  So this is the impressed part!

And as I read this pastor’s blog I was directed to other blogs through comments that were left on his site either for or against Obama’s decision.  And as I began looking through these comments I was irritated at the number of people that will take a stand against something without truly researching that which they are taking a stand in.  Let me give you an example.  When I was younger in my walk I would never talk with any other “religious” groups that would come to my door because I did not feel I could defend myself well enough.  Well I got tired of this so I went out and researched their beliefs, their books, and their leadership.  I found holes and I found what was the same jargon and I learned where they had contradictions in their teachings.   Now I at one time would have been very direct and forceful to prove a point that I was right and they were wrong and it would have benefited now one.  So I have learned that the best is to talk and hash it all out and force them to think about the holes and try to not only answer it for me but for themselves as well.  Not because I want them to be wrong but because I urn for everyone to seek God’s face.  So in reading these comments people were taking “quotes” (I use that loosely) out of the Bible and misrepresenting Christians to be hate-mongers.   In all actuality they were misrepresenting scripture and taking out of context statements made to prove their point when if they really looked for truth instead of looking to prove their point our world might be a little different.  That is the irritated part.

The ironic part to me was that the very people that pushed Obama and said that I was a hate-monger and not tolerant because of my beliefs; hate me and are not tolerant of my beliefs.  But instead they turn on their very own and make statements like this:

“So over the past days I have felt angry at Obama. And then sad. And now blank. And I worry if he’s up to the task of all the problems the country and the world have. He looked exhausted at the last press conference he appeared at…”

The last things that struck me and saddened me was that as a Christ follower and as a person that will talk with anyone and share my beliefs and compare and so forth with anyone I am saddened that people are not more open to the truth.  Now I understand that is is going to be this way but the true problem is not other people.  It is us…Christ followers.  We have seperated ourselves from those that need us the most.  And we dont effectively share our beliefs because we dont know what we believe.  We are to influenced by the World and not influenced enough by the Word.  Lets make a deal and loose the “L”!!!!  I have heard and have even jokingly said myself that “I wish I had a burning bush for this decision” but the truth is you don’t need a burning bush to tell you what is God’s will because He already gave that in the Bible.

So here is the point.  Lets get fired up and lose the L.

God Bless ~ Tyler