By the time I get to Phoenix

Yesterday was a rough day. I'm probably going to have to stop listening to talk radio. I was rolling out a bale of hay and had a thought. Wouldn't it be great if all I ever had to think about was feeding these cows and trying to make a living to support my family? But no, I have to worry that congress will bankrupt this country with the "stimulus package". I'm thinking great, now I have to go home, get on the net, and read this thing. Then I hear it's over 1000 pages long. The people who I elect to read these bills don't even have time to read it, but hey, let's just vote yes anyway. I hear that drug wars continue to spill over from Mexico and that freakin' Phoenix, AZ is the #2 city in the world for kidnappings. No need to worry about that though, we just elected the AZ gov to head homeland security. I think I've heard it said before if I can't trust you with the little responsibilities, then you just need bigger ones. No, I'm not sure if that is...

Anywho, I could go on and on. I think that you get my point.

Yes, I am a republican. I am a conservative. Above all though I am a Christian. Perhaps I need to find a new word. I heard a preacher say he asked 14 people in a week's time if they were Christians. They all said yes. He said that he needed to ask a different question.

I've toyed around with calling myself an adopted Jew. That would probably take too much of an explanation, but that I don't mind. What bothers me is that I would probably be labeled a racist. Oh well. Christian will have to do.

What I mean when I say that I am a Christian is God is the center of my world. More specifically Jesus Christ. This is the reason I don't have to worry about all the afore mentioned problems. Does that mean I can take an ostrich's view of the world? No, obviously not.

There are two traditional lines of thought here. Conservatives tend to think that with hard work and the right decisions in life, one can pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Liberals tend to believe that one's success in life does depend on working, but for some reason, luck has a part in it as well. I think that they are both wrong. Both political ideologies in a secular sense lead to the same end: achievement in this world. Liberals think that you need help beyond yourself, conservatives don't. Wait a minute. Maybe I'm more of a liberal than I thought. I know that I am stereotyping here, but for this arguments' sake, generalizations will have to do. We can hash out the details in the comments section.

I believe that there is only one God. That would make the most sense, right? Who would want to work for a company with two CEOs with equal power? A house divided cannot stand. Next, we would have to reason that this God would have to reveal himself to humanity in order to hold man accountable for knowing Him. "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse." Romans 1:20 I know that I need to go into more thought here, but this will suffice for the purposes of my point.


What is the point of living? Why are we here? Jesus said that in order to see the kingdom of God we must become like little children. No one asks why more than a child. Why do we stop asking why? Perhaps we stop because we think we have the why figured out.



The reason why I am here is to serve God. I'm here to serve Christ. He saved me. Christ didn't come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people alive. We are dead to God. That's the problem. We are eternal. If you don't believe that ask yourself why doctors can't resurrect people. Why can't a doctor give someone who's had a heart attack a new heart and jolt him back to life? A car can sit in a field for years and I can resurrect it. A car has no soul. We do.



So why am I still here? Why can't heaven begin today? I have a job to do. I have to tell a dead world that there is life out there if they want it. I have to be specific and exclusive. All roads don't lead to Baltimore. Nor do they to God.



The world is falling. Christ knows this. He loves me. I'm His son. He has promised to take care of me. Read Luke 21. The worst thing that can happen here is that I die. This world and all that is in it is temporary, both pleasure and pain. We are meant for eternity.