Posted by
JTB on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:59:45 AM
Congressman Murtha displayed all of his usual wit and charm when he wrongly said:
This week, around our Thanksgiving tables, there will be two families:
One who say they support the troops, and they do, but they have
sacrificed very little. They haven’t had their taxes raised, they
haven’t been drafted, and they don’t really participate in the war. The
other are military families who have husbands and wives, sons and
daughters, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters in the war
theater. It’s them who shoulder the burden of the President’s Iraq
policy. America owes them our thanks in this Thanksgiving weekend.
VETERANS DAY is the day to remember the sacrifices of or men and
women in the military. What was “Haditha Jack” saying and doing two
weeks ago? And, while it is true that Americans have not been as supportive of the troops as we ought, where are the APPROPRIATIONS BILLS that fund the support systems for our heroes? STILL BEING FOUGHT OVER BY DEMOCRATS, THAT's WHERE!!!
THANKSGIVING is a day set aside to thank GOD, not
humans for the many blessings He has given us. It is supposed to be a
day of sober reflection and prayer, a day of serious contemplation. I
seriously doubt that conspicuous gluttony and arena sports were
foremost in President Lincoln’s mind as he proclaimed the first official day of
Thanksgiving…
But in Murtha’s haste to misuse the things of
God for his own callous and crass political ends, let us not allow this
carrion-crawler to distract us from Our higher purposes. Jesus said his
followers would be known by their love.
The Apostle Paul wrote about this extensively, including this famous passage:
1 Corinthians 13:1-13, NASB
The Excellence of Love
If
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I
have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of
prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender
my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love
is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is
not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is
not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love
never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done
away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it
will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but
when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
When
I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason
like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For
now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in
part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
And the hardest thing for an American to do is lower his (or her?) pride enough to follow these words…
We
have to love others to show we love the Lord. And we have to do it
while protecting those among us who are weaker than we are from those
who would take advantage of them.
Christian Love does not mean
submission to foreign invaders, nor does it mean submission to false
religions. And it does not mean we have to accept obviously sinful
practices, just because someone claims to be a believer. There are ways
to deal with this (for example, Matthew 18:15-20, 1 Corinthians 5:1-13,
2 John 1:7-11).
We don’t need to get “revenge” (that is the
Lord’s part); but we do need to support our families to the best of our
abilities. And that means keeping them away from evil as much as
possible.
May God grant us wisdom to follow His path, not the false piety of the political schemers…