Boycott?!

I usually don't waste my time with insignificant things that just keep us from fulfilling what God has called us to do, but I just had to with this one!!

It's time for us Christians to understand that LOVE changes lives!! Christ was the perfect example of taking light in to dark places and the ones He was intolerant to and made a "stand" against were not the people in office or government or people that were screwed up in their beliefs and ways of life, but the church people / pharisees that thought they had it all figured out. (MARK 7:1-23)

Ronald Reagan once said that "The solution to the problem is not the government. The government is the problem". I'm not saying that the government is all the problem, but if we as Christians would stop putting so much trust and giving so much energy to the guys that are in office or want to be in office and come to an understanding that this is God's story and it's all in His hands and what He has ask us to do is simply Love and be Holy as He is Holy, I wonder how different things may be?!?!

George Bush, Barack Obama, or John McCain is not the solution to the problem. Jesus is the solution to the problem and Jesus is Love. Showing love to the enemy and the ones that hate us is the solution to the problem, not boycotting everything and everyone that may not hold the same beliefs as us, and for some reason it has become just that. (LUKE 6:27-36)

When it's all said and done we are not going to be measured by how much standing up we did, or how many emails we sent to congress, wal-mart, cnn, cbs, abc, nbc or anyone or anything else. I know my life will certainly not be measured for this blog / message I'm typing right now or any other blog / message I may type in the future. We will all be measured by the amount of Love we show to everyone we come in contact with, including homosexuals, abortion doctors or people that may have had an abortion, and shock shock, the democrats. I with out a doubt disagree and don't stand for a lot of the things that a lot of these men and women in congress (on both sides) stand for or don't stand for, but what we must understand is that we are not any better or any different from them in God's eyes, and that is where we have gone wrong in refusing by our actions to live out what Christ has called us as Christians to do a long time ago. (1 Corinthians 13)

All I'm saying is if we would spend less time whining about how bad everything is and stop talking about how we need to boycott this and boycott that and spend more time getting out in to this "big bad world" of darkness and allow Christ to shine His light in and through us in to the hearts and lives of all these "bad unlovable people with no morals", just think how many things and how many people could and would be changed as a result of what Christ does in and through us, not as a result of what we may say or do on our own!!

Jesus is the solution to all our problems. Love is the solution, and that is what we as Christians need to understand and act on so that we can start making a positive difference on this world with Christ in us, not Christ and us!! (COLOSSIANS 1:24-29)

Respectfully written,
Stephen B.