"If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel. To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom. Wherefore, if you see another sin openly or commit a serious crime, do not consider yourself better, for you do not know how long you can remain in good estate. All men are frail, but you must admit that none is more frail than yourself." Thomas Akempis
I take slight exception to Akempis' writing here. I do believe the Spirit of Jah will lead me into all Truth, therefore, I can judge all things. Yet he is dead on, about Humility and the need to know our own self-desire. Yet I know my mandate to stand against sin. Even my own.
As we call forth Jah's judgment on this land, it is with bended knee and broken heart. Concerning Government, I don't know that given the same set of circumstances, that I would have governed better than the Elite that now rule this nation. But I believe that the Spirit of Christ in me would have made a difference, and kept me on the right path. I really do believe that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights should never have been legislated out of power. But it has been, and I mourn the resultant Nation.
Our government has failed us. They are on the wrong path. The Word of Jah is:
Repent for the kingdom is at hand!
Thomas Akempis makes a good point on sin. Certainly it is a humbling thing to be used to speak for Truth. But all things considered, we are given a biblical mandate to stand against evil. Our Government is evil. We do not speak out just against its sin, but for the Truth!
1Cr 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
I do not trust more in Satan's ability to deceive me than I do, the Spirit of Truth's ability to guide me.
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