Thots On Life In the USA

That is, thots on living the Christian life in the USA.  

 

There is a balance needed in everyone's life.  We tend to lean one way or another.  Remember that old V8 commercial where everyone without their daily V8 was walking as if they were slanted?  I believe that Christians can be slanted, too.  We're not balanced just because we call ourselves Christians.

 

You see, as a Christian, our citizenship is first in Heaven.  That is a key truth.  It is NOT in the good old USA.  But we ALSO are citizens of the USA, and so we have a civic duty to perform as an expression of our Divinely appointed role of being salt and light.  However, we can be slanted to lean too far to the USA citizenship that we fail our Heavenly Citizenship - which includes much more than simply being salt and light to the morality and public policy of our earthly nation.  We need to share the good news that everyone CAN be reconciled to God, that God loves them, and Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.  The government officials need Jesus as their Savior as much as the drug addict, pusher, and everyone in between.  Our country needs a Biblical worldview again and needs to turn her back on the current humanistic one.  That won't be accomplished through public policy but through genuine and faithful evangelism - one heart at a time.

 

So what is the balance?  In my opinion (which I base upon my study of the Scriptures) we should devote the majority of our time and resources (money, things, and thought) to evangelizing those in our sphere of influence.  We should ask ourselves what it will take to help them see the truth of the gospel and accept it for themselves.  We then should vote, address public policy through letters to our government leaders, etc. as a means of protecting our right to continue to evangelize those whom God puts into our path.  So the USA citizenship thing should take less of our thoughts than the HEAVENLY citizenship thing.  Guess I'm guilty of needing a priority change myself!