“How terrible that you should boast about your spirituality, and yet you let this sort of thing go on. Don’t you realize that even if one person is allowed to go on sinning, soon all will be affected” (1 Corinthians 5:6 NLT).
Tea parties protest poor governing. Recent turnovers bring new hands and faces to political offices. Town meetings discuss what’s wrong with the government.
I’m no political scholar and this may or may not, according to you, be a place for such talk—but I have the answer for the rotting condition of our nation.
It’s not in a certain party.
It has nothing to do with anything ending with an –ism.
It doesn’t take a special called election or new laws.
It’s more personal than all of those. It’s a matter of me.
I have to be more selective about what’s allowed into my heart and home. I, in order to turn this country around, must be willing to monitor more closely what I watch, listen to and read.
I cannot, should not and won’t hold any elected official to any higher standards than I myself am willing to live. I cannot expect more godliness out of another human than I am willing to attain myself. I cannot judge a person’s character or spiritual well-being by her vote, unless I am willing to be held accountable to the same standards in my speech and my actions.
When I determine to govern my soul and body by stricter ordinances, my home will be affected. When my home is affected, my neighborhood, my church, my workplace and my child’s school will feel the effects. When those areas of my life are touched by a deeper godliness, my state and nation will in turn feel the ripple effect of my decisions.
I’m not here to state that what I do will change the world, but what I don’t certainly will. What about you…..where you live…in your part of the world?
Malinda Edgell
Illinois
PRAY TOGETHER: Praise the Lord for 75 years of WNAC ministry—ministry that has impacted homes, churches, communities and the world for Christ.
