Lately, more and more I find myself wishing for peace on this earth. We as American's now face a challenging future in this world. Not a challenge that we will be militarily defeated but one in which we loose ourselves in vein struggles to spread the gospel of "democracy". True, democracy is good, and we are blessed to have it. But it is untrue that we can simply force it on others. The hippie movement in large part was not at all anti-democracy or anti-communist. It was a pro-human movement. Unfortunately, it was Godless in it's aim and thus was not adoptable by America as a whole. Freedom was abused in that our parents chose to free themselves of all obligation to not just country but to faith. Despite that, the hippie movement served to temper our war with communism. Had it not, nuclear war may well have destroyed our earth. I would never have been born. In the same sense that communism eventually lost out to democracy or some other form, so must the ideals behind terrorism pass. We lost in Vietnam, and I am sad to say that Iraq and Afghanistan seem to have no end in site to their struggles, but fingerpointing must not be our way. I don't believe in walking a way. I think though at this point we must do the will of the Iraqi people as a whole, whatever the consequence. If we choose their form of government for them, than we are in fact ruling them and that is not democracy.
I look at the world, and I see two fragmented worlds. We are not fighting for democracy, instead we are firing shots back at a world which we "modern" peoples see as primitive. The problem with this is, that our moderness or what have you has not made the lives of the not-modern any better and sometimes fails to make our lives any better. We as a country are failing. We stress our rights to this and that as if we were entitled to it all, while children die in Africa by the millions whether it be starvation, war, or disease. This is unacceptable.
I realized today as I drove the toll road home that I throw into each toll what is perhaps half a day's wages in some parts of this world as if it were nothing. WE HAVE NO SENSE OF OUR POWER TO DO GOOD. As christians there can be no excuse not to do better. We truly truly truly need a reality check. It's so hard to imagine that others can even live on so little. The reality of man is that he is selfish by nature. The reality of my faith is that it empowers me to change it for myself. 50 cents is Power. Insane to think that a happy meal is three days wages somewhere. Imagine waiting three days between meals to get a crappy happy meal. It is so hard to be poor, it is so easy to become jelous. Terrorism will not be defeated by arms, but by good ideology. Certainly as human beings we have a right to defend ourselves. But let us practice deterance not war. It worked against communism. Let history repeat itself. War is not my faith.
Who is more powerful than God?
In the bible it said "God is Love"
Therefore Love is the most powerful weapon we can wield. We must learn this. If war works, than why is it still happening? Why is hatred still so prevelent. The truth is that Love wins even when it looses, that's why Jesus came to earth. We must love muslim, we must love jew, hindu, buhdist, we most love every race, every creed. It sounds broken record, unrealistic, I know. But there can be no more excuse. We as a world are in a state of brokeneness. Let us mend the wounds with the healing power of God. Christ be with us!
In america it has been shown that our collective concious can change. Bigotry is falling away, and freedom's bells are ringing, but greed has become us. We are not hungry, we are lustful. My lust, my hungers too must change. Forgive me father, grace upon all your children.
