Waiting for George

Today, rather this evening, I watched the Glenn Beck program and his topic was about George Washington.  I have heard Glenn speak about this many times and maybe you have too.  The issues and problems going on in our country today are to say the least, distressing.  It seems more and more, week by week, sometimes day by day we are introduced to a new level of stripping of our constitutional liberties and freedoms.  President Obama continues to wax on about how he is turning the economy of this country around, that soon if we give him more power through new laws soon he will put this country back on track.  My question for this is, what track is that and toward what kind of destination?

I look in the news paper and view the local political stories and I wonder who will be the county commissioner, the mayor, the governor that will lead with strength and with conviction.  Rubio, Crist, who will be our next Senator.  When I look to the gubernatorial race I see McCollum and I see Rick Scott, which one will be the conservative leader that will lead our state out of this recession (depression)?  We are all looking out to the horizon line wondering where we as a society are headed.  China owns us up to our neck, Greece is erupting each and every day because their economical system has become overloaded with giving out too many benefits such as state wide retirement at age 52 with at least 80% of your salary coming back to you monthly for the remainder of your days. 

North Korea or Iran would very much like to lob a small nuclear missile our way and detonate it in our atmosphere to create an Electro Magnetic Pulse which would ONLY disrupt the electrical grid for at least half of the continental United States and throw us back into the horse and buggy age overnight.  Biological warfare is now being looked at for the next decade and leaving nuclear weaponry behind.  Nuclear weapons, yeah, we don’t want to blow up buildings and make holes in the earth, let’s create bacteria and disease that were not natural to the creation of the earth.  Let’s create something and spread it around and no one but God alone will be able to destroy it.

Glenn Beck looks for another George Washington, someone who has principals and courage.  A person who has conviction and yet humbles himself to bend a knee to the Lord our God, the God of the Hebrews; someone who is open to the leading of the Holy Spirit someone who is willing to forego bribes and power grabbing.  We want a knight in shining armor, George rode upon a white horse and he was never ever wounded in battle yet his clothing sustained multiple bullet holes.  We are looking for a knight of a different sort today one that will charge after the cheats in finance and beat them at their own game buy shutting down the laws that allow them to manipulate our money to suit their financial benefit.  We hunger for a person who will speak to us in everyday language and will tell us the way things are.  As a society we say we want the truth when in fact, taking a quote from a movie,”truth, you want the truth?  You can’t handle the truth!”  What are we to do then, how can we move forward and regain what the socialists have so patiently and lawfully taken away from us, that is what really burns us up inside isn’t it?  That they did it legally and right out in the open and the country as a whole stood by and stated that none of those socialist/communist things could happen here in America.

If they had acted as a mugger and robbed our country from us in the dark of night using a weapon of some sort then we would have full license to hate them, to want them deported from our country’s boundaries and to never be heard from again.  Yes it would be easy and even convenient if not downright made for a t.v. movie.  But that is not the truth and it is not reality and waiting for a hero to come and save us is also not true reality.  In the movie of Spiderman II was a song sung by Nickleback called Hero.  The lyrics of the song say that we are in trouble and that we need a hero to save us, “but I’m not going to stand here and wait,” and that is exactly what we must do, we must not wait for a hero we must become the hero.  Good leaders are not born, they are made and that is a fact.  George Washington was a terrible leader in his early years and it was only after he had lost men under his command and had tasted humiliation and defeat that he dug deep inside of his soul and prayed for God to pull out what was inside, what would help him and his men and his country.  That is what each and every one of us must do.  We must ask God to reach inside us and pull up what He knows will help Him and this country.  George was a man who in the end realized that he did not command his destiny as the television commercials tell us.  If you want to believe that then you may want to ask God to help you see if that is really true.

As for me God has shown me that I can lead my life in my own ways and that is what free will is about.  God has also shown me that if I want to lead others in ways of truth and goodness, in ways of healing and of justice then I need to pay attention to His ways because He –God created healing and justice, He created truth and goodness, He is truth and goodness and all of the ways and behavior that are what mankind agrees are virtues and attributes worthy of all humanity to take notice.  When truth speaks the heart knows and the spirit of a person is moved internally, there is a harmonic vibration that resonates with truth.  Why do we need to wait for a George Washington?  We must become George Washington; we must become Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr.  If we desire people of principle then we must become what we desire because to wait for someone else to be that for us only puts power into that person’s hands and that could prove to be dangerous.  It worked well for George because no one was looking for him; no one said from the day of his birth that he would be a man of greatness and that he would be the first president of the greatest symbol of freedom and liberty on the face of the earth.  The only country where Jesus is openly worshiped and where people of all faiths, color, backgrounds and economic level can be equal because as Americans we all place our hand on our heart and pledge our allegiance to this great Republic and to the people of this great nation.  We are it; we are the outpost of freedom in this world.  Without us, without America in this world darkness will pervade, it will act as a blanket and smother those looking for liberty and justice, for freedom from fear.  Darkness will have won.

Jesus showed the whole world that He overcame death.  He got up and walked out of a cave after being dead three days and showed himself to his closest friends to allow us to see that there is nothing on this earth that is stronger than He.  He is love of the highest level and nothing can destroy love.  George had love, the special kind of love that burns in a person’s soul.  A love that can keep you awake at night because you are driven to succeed with your mission. 

Do you feel that burning?  Do you find yourself talking to the television and shouting things that you know are true and steam in your living room because the local politicians are following the steps of congress and the white house?  Well, do something about it.  Write to your congressman or your local politician and tell them what you believe is the answer.  Not everyone can think of everything.  Just because an answer seems so apparent to you doesn’t make it so apparent to others.  You are the spokesperson for truth, you are the one, you are burning with a message and you have legal ways and means to deliver that message.  You will eventually know more about politics than most people in City Hall and you will be all the better for it.  Who will explain the truth to the young, if not you then it will be the communists.

Do not take for granted that others in Washington fight for the same causes you do and do not willfully give over your hopes and dreams to someone who seems like a new George Washington.  God only made one of those and for good reason.  He was a man whose life was meant for a lifetime of a country and we can learn from his experiences.  Only Jesus of Nazareth is the person who we are to put all our hope and faith into and He will not disappoint; all others are only creations of God who carry in them a spirit of Christ Jesus and it is that spirit that our spirit longs for.  As a moth to a flame, so are our spirits drawn to the Spirit of Christ Jesus and when we encounter a person who radiates a glimpse of the Spirit of Jesus we believe them to be our savior, our hero, our knight in shining armor coming to our rescue.  Do not be fooled and do not give away your hope so cheaply and easily.  You too can obtain the Spirit of Christ Jesus inside of you but you have to ask Jesus for it and you must give over your ambitions and desires for His ambitions and desires and yes Christ Jesus has some but we will save that for another letter.

Be the hero, be the truth bearer and make your corner of the world stronger and greater by being a reflection of the one who is truth.  Be the leader that your family needs or your town needs, we must not stand and wait for someone to come and do it for us, that is not the way of Christ.  The way of Christ is to be a light bearer and bring His spirit forth into the world ourselves to show the power of God.  To show that we do not have to be rich or powerful or persuasive, those ways are the ways of the world.  A true messenger of the truth is of common looks and plain upbringing.  God will use those whom the world calls foolish so that the Miracle of God can and will be seen by all.