"What's that? Don't you know you can't mix politics and religion?" In a sense that's true. But .in another very real sense, it is something we need to be about in a serious way, because this thing called "politics" can make or break a nation! I firmly believe the Christian ought to be interested in the affairs of our nation; we need to think seriously about the folks we put in po­sitions to make our laws and run our country.

Now you be the decider of who you will vote for; that's not for me to say. But as time goes on, we see more and more the need to investigate the char­acter of those we send to represent us. You see, it is not a "religious and politi­cal" issue at all; it is a character and moral issue. I fear that many of us have religious bents simply because we "inherit" them and they have been a "family tradition" with us all our lives.

Now insofar as I know, people like Paul and other great men of God never did favor the elephant or the donkey! But they were concerned about those who ruled in high places. Daniel served God in a heathen kingdom ­and made friends with the greatest monarch of his day! Paul stood before the kings of his day and defended the office that God had blessed him with. He was not afraid to array God against the civil rulers of the day when they stood opposed to God.

I fear that we have placed ourselves in the untenable position of saying, "well, you know - we are to respect the civil rulers of our day, and when we speak of them in such a way that shows we have no respect for them, we are disobeying God." Oh, is that right? Shall we elect civil rulers in our country that have not the slightest regard for God or his laws? Shall we with docility and fear defend them with, "we can't speak evil of our rul­ers."

Too many citizens of our great land today put scoundrels in high places, and then we whine when we see what they are or when they won't give us what we want. We defend them be­cause they are of "our party," even though they may be immoral, perverse and are nothing but leeches on the very society they are bound to make better!

Now - you help elect whom you will ­if you are willing to stand by and see the principles and rights of good men violated on every hand. But don't complain when things don't go like you thought they would. Someone has said "a statesman is a politician who has been for at least 100 years." Well, I don't know about that ­but if we want to continue to have the freedoms that we hold so dear, we had better wake up and look at whom we are putting in charge of those free­doms! Does the Christian have an obligation to involve himself in such? Absolutely so. Let's be about it! - Bill Moseley 

 

 

AND ANOTHER THING
(The Squirrel's Discovery)

Said one squirrel to another as they sat in the top of a tall tree, "behold, what is this object that has invaded our tree top since we were last here?" The other answered, "I know not; seems to be a strange object to me. It long and slim shape seems to make it ill-fitted for any practical use." And so they went to the aged squirrel who was equally confused as they. The mys­tery remains to the questioning ro­dents till this day. The deep, dark mystery persisted and no squirrel had an answer.

But wait - there is an answer, and I know what it is! I too saw the object, and it bore a striking resemblance to an entire set of them in my golf bag! Resting snugly in the fork of a tree limb, 40 feet up, was - a golf club! I can also tell the squirrels how it got there, for I too have felt like hurling one of mine as far as the human arm could propel one. But I can honestly say in over 40 years of toting the use­less things, I have managed to refrain from hurling one of them. The lesson is this: don't do what it does no good to do! In the case in point, it does but two things: [1] it puts a $60 golf club completely out of your reach, and [2] the resident rodents become more con­fused than the golfer is angry. Selah!
- Bill Moseley