Whoever is elected president, I predict that America will enter into four years of turmoil. The passions stirred up in this election have revealed an America more divided than before, and the divisions are bound to get worse. Racial divisions are at a boiling point. Class divisions are brewing. Educational disparities are obvious...
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Then why are you perpetuating the potential instead of helping? As a Christian you couldn't possibly be hoping for any type of self-fulfilling prediction. Could you, knowing Jesus implied we should be peacemakers among men, instead of stirring up trouble or participating in it. There's nothing wrong with bringing attention to something that is wrong....so it can be effectively addressed in order to heal. There IS something wrong with not bothering with even the barest attempt at trying to be a peacemaker. Singling out others "different from you" is no way to be a peacemaker among men. Are you hoping to be a trouble stirrer, or a physician? Should we be asking the Lord to show us the difference, and to forgive and heal us... first?
In the past two years, I've seen more calls (and action) from Hillary Clinton for unity among Americans to work together to solve our problems, than even once out of Donald Trump. (Instead, he seems to create even more turmoil, almost feeding off the negativity.) The spiritual path has never been mentioned by either candidate. While Congress does, neither one begins their rallies with even the barest of acknowledgement of God through prayer.
We were already having turmoil. Where are the calls for unity coming from Christians? Strangely silent. Are we to believe that unbelievers care and do more about unity among humanity than we should? If so, don't complain or condemn about how they go about fostering that unity--without religion, without the love of Jesus Christ going before it. We know human-based unity cannot last, yet we still do nothing except sideline ourselves or even join "sides"?
Where are our personal responsibilities here, as Christians, in the eyes of God? How can we be effective in healing where it is needed? Where is the question that asks that? Please point it out to me, because perhaps I've missed it? Our silence of safety will ultimately condemn us, not absolve us.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. (Matt 5:9)
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
--St. Francis
