Trigger Warning!!!!!!!

Alright I am about to open a can of worms and I know it. I was praying today and I felt an extreme conviction to pray for our nation. We are currently being attacked in the spiritual realm and need divine revelation in order to prevent division within our own country. It does not matter who you are and what you believe we all deal with opposition to our worldview. We all have to control our actions and reactions when we are placed in uncomfortable situations. As time goes on I have noticed most people turn to anger and resentment as fuel for their cause.

In many cases the cause itself is not completely invalid. The problem comes when an ideology becomes radicalized and is considered the only view that people can have. It comes from fear. The fear that others do not and will not accept your opinion or view gives way to anger and offense.
You become unable to hear an opposing points that are being made and aggressive defense of your beliefs are put out. If we cannot discuss and calmly have debate we will never be able to come together.

I believe this is key when living in Christ especially. As Christians we are examined very harshly in the secular world and judged as hypocritical a lot of the time. The reason this is easy to do is that the Word tells us to love and not condemn, yet we constantly push away, judge, and talk down to sinners. God never wanted us to act this way. We think that we are furthering His message by criticizing the person who is sinning. Christ showed us that in order to defeat darkness you must bring it to light! Right?

Christ does want us to bring the light. HIS LIGHT! He wants us to love the sinner and not the sin. Look at His life and watch how he dealt with the lost. He often healed them and told them to not sin anymore. This shows us that in order to change the world we must love the people in the world. I pray that the Christian community will join together and demonstrate the love of Christ to this world and help heal our culture. Until we start discussing issues with the love of Christ we will never find the solutions that we need to heal.