The Law Kills, but the Spirit gives Life

The Law Kills, but the Spirit gives Life

The problems of this land and it’s elected officials are varied and many; they range from bribery to extortion, from theft to lying, from adultery to selfishness, from deception to out right ignoring of the voice of the people. The root of government today in this land is no different than at any other time in the last 150 years or even before that. What is it that makes this era of government so extreme from others that have come through this land in our history? I propose that the root problem of those in public office toady is that they have no moral or spiritual compass to guide them, no moral or spiritual mooring to hold them when the storms of pressure to bend to “perceived” popular opinion come up suddenly. Those in the offices of our land are nothing more than hired hands doing the biding of their masters the special interest groups and the unions. They have no interest in anything but what will serve their bottom line and pad their own pockets.
Many times we in America have called for laws to be enacted to curb the immoral tide that is flowing against the national shores of our Godly heritage. This is only a band-aid to cover up the festering sores of the disease of immorality and ungodliness that ooze out of the pores of this once great nation. We need to return to the God that established this nation and set it upon a hill as a light to the nations. This nation was founded with the understanding that we had to govern ourselves as a people if this experiment in righteousness was to succeed and that we could only govern ourselves when we had something greater and stronger than ourselves to hold on to as a compass and an anchor. In the bible the book of first Corinthians chapter 3 verse 6 tells us that “God also has made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
In the words of John Adams, “The Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.” The problem is not with the Constitution, but it is with the people who are running the government at this time. As grotesque and hideous as many of the evils of this land are today; abortion, gay rights, illegal immigration, ungodly leaders and the list goes on and on we can’t look to the passing of laws (the letter) to serve as the agent of change in this country but we need to make sure that we are in righteous standing with the God of this universe who created us and then we will see clearly to be lead by the Spirit of God so we and those around us will live in harmony with each other by the hand of God because we want to not because we are told to by a government that really cares less for us.