To a Divided Nation

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”John 13:35

There can be no unity among a people when the vast majority of that people are idolatrous, hating each other because they first hated God. Anyone who says he wants peace and unity and does not love God and his enemies is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

We are at war with one another because we cannot escape our own natures, and our nature informs us that if we want something and we cannot obtain it by other means, we should take it by force. Rather than asking God for it, we destroy others and flaunt God's commandments to obtain it. That goes for power and prestige as much as it does for material possessions. 

. . .those who represent us in the in national, state and municipal legislatures have no basis for uniting us if they themselves are at enmity with God and with one another.

Do we think we can have unity without repentance? Do we think it is our neighbor, or our enemy, who needs repentance, but not us?

God admonishes us to seek unity in the Church, the Body of Christ. He is not surprised by, nor is He focused on enmity outside the Church, other than to condemn it as Sin. We should never be surprised by the natural, inescapable enmity of partisan politics, for those who represent us in the White House, in national, state and municipal legislatures have no basis for uniting us if they themselves are at enmity with God. 

We are always united politically in direct proportion to our relationship with Christ. Never more. Never less. We have no true tendency whatsoever to reconcile with each other politically if we have not first reconciled with Christ spiritually. 

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