One thing that can often be disappointing is the saber
rattling and the clamoring for war and the
interventionism that both the left and right wings of
this nation’s political parties engage in. What’s more
disappointing is the tendency to think that, as some
consolation for more liberal forces being in office, that
perhaps we’ll get less war and bloodshed. That is,
once again, proving to be a fools hope as the current
administration weighs sending our young men — and
now young women — in arms to foreign countries to
partake of the bloodiness of war.
While it appears that, for now, that may not happen, the threat of such violence should send us to our knees in prayer. Pastor Thacker impressed upon us last week the need to pray for God to, “put things right.” One of the things we can pray for is peace and not bloodshed. There are such things as just, defensive wars, and it’s been a very long time since the U.S. participated in one of those. And so our present calling is to pray for peace, and the quelling of those voices that tell us that war is good and right and any war we’re involved in is a just war.
Pray that God would turn our attention homeward to the logs in our own eye, rather then the specs in other nation’s eyes. And that we would turn our hearts to Him and allow Him to set our nation’s laws and agenda, and that we would make God’s laws our laws.