Theocentric Musings

  You think Obama is so bad and so evil, and you just can't find it in your heart to pray for our leaders? Jesus had His disciples and the many followers of His praying for, and :::gasp:::, obeying even, their leaders... even a leader like Nero. Nero of all people! You haven't seen brutality until you find out what Nero did to Christians, yet Jesus wanted His followers to pray for and obey th at guy. You cover your eyes or just plain refuse to even watch the torturous scenes in horror movies? The utter depravity and sheer psychosis of Nero puts that to shame, and he actually did these things to people in real life, it wasn't make believe or special effects. Look around, we still live in one of the wealthiest countries, with opportunities even today, and you can even worship your God with no fear of being put on a stake and burned alive having your body used as a night light to light up your local city park by your leaders, and you really find it so, so difficul...

I look at the happenings in this country with groups rising up and them and the government pointing guns at each other, and specifically the Christians that support these happenings and raising of said guns, and I see the Israelites in Jesus' time all over. Trying to overthrow the government, wanting to fight and go to war, wanting a Savior that gets all Rambo or medieval on someone's butt. It's like they aren't wise enough to have learned from what happened in AD70. Is it hard to imagine something like that happening all over again in this country? Jesus didn't come to overthrow the government, He came to change hearts. Drop your guns, and share the gospel, or pray for your government officials, and maybe you'd see real hope and change. I hate when people don't learn from history, or the bible for that matter.