God Not Included

Over the past weeks as God has given me context on what to write/discuss. It was also clear that the latest TiMP remain for a couple of weeks to give you all time to read and reflect. Same was the case for the previous week. The Hard to Breathe and Missed Opportunities can be hard reads to absorb no matter your racial or economic identification. However I believe it's important that we have self-evaluation and continued communication of the tough social issues. I understand that God has blessed and provided me a platform. I also grasp the importance of using it to elevate Christ as well as not being afraid to challenge and address issues in the world today. Being fully transparent my position is not political, nor is it black or white, my position is Christ. Therefore because my position is Christ I also understand I must endure and swallow some things, I would otherwise react to differently. As I see and listen to various news articles and talk shows related to world affairs, politics, entertainment the list goes on an on. I began to notice this common thread across the majority being reported and discussed. "God is Not Included".

It reminded me of that long standing old phrase when you buy a toy or something that needs power to work and the package says "batteries not included". It seems God is the forgotten piece and Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are the gods we trust. From those who claim their conservative foundation to those with so called "liberial and social views", they all mark their beliefs by their own illusions rather than God's inclusion. It's imperative the world recognize that in order for the forces of truth, change and wisdom to operate successfully the dependency on the power of God must be at work. Any achievements without God are only momentary man-made solutions. We often forget man is not a problem solver man is a problem creator. If men or women ever actually solved a problem there would be no need to adapt, amend or rewrite history and assuredly no need for God.

The real reality for long lasting permenant gain is God's plan and direction, must be at the core and not just a prop. Man must stop using equality as a mechanism to condone sin and thus creating laws and rules contrary to God's standard. The Word must be the ulitimate position of structrual reckoning to promote the past as informative history and set the future as a new day realized. You see, we can all join in with the taking down of monuments, changing the names and images that still stand for slavery, racism, Jim Crow, oppression or any other injustice. The world can march, chant, throw money and meaningless words at all the problems. However, until hearts change and the pen begins to instruct based on God's principles and not that of man. We will continue to fight against a system not capable of doing what is right and that system is all of us.

The Apostle Paul wrote about this very subject long ago in the book of Romans 1:28-32 which shows how pertenant God's word is today. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. 30 They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.