PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES
I watched the Presidential Debates last night. (completely forgot about Monday Night Football!) Before you either click the delete button or wait with great anticipation to see who I thought won, let me say, "Whoa Padna". That's not my intention at all.
It was amazing to me, that God had chosen a little nothing people called the Jews, mainly based on the fact that they were a little nothing of a country, to be His people. Not because they WERE anything, but because they WEREN'T. That from this nothing country He brought a savior into the world and began to write his story of His glory through history.
Now, 2000 years later, this little nothing of a country is stealing the show on the US Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy. Why do they even matter? What's their greatest import...export? Are they rich? Are they powerful? Are they big? Do they buy our stuff? Do they owe us money? Nope. Negative to all of the above. They are important for one reason and one reason only...God chose them. A long time ago, God chose them. For the most part they have turned their back on God and are totally unfaithful to Him. They are one of the most secular countries in the world. Their spiritual relevance is that of a tourist destination, not an active place of worship.
However, that doesn't change the fact that God chose them, and no matter how unfaithful they have become to God, when God makes an unconditional promise, He keeps it. So, faithful or unfaithful, if you take on Israel, you're taking on God...not because of Israel's goodness, but because of God's goodness. And, if you stand with them, you stand with God. Since they are tiny and problematic and everyone around them wants them to go away, it would be easier to just forget them and let nature take it's course.
But, we can't forget them. Thousands and thousands of years after they emerged, they are still the major foreign policy topic in the US Presidential Debate. WOW! When God speaks, people listen...even when they don't think He exists!
It was amazing to me, that God had chosen a little nothing people called the Jews, mainly based on the fact that they were a little nothing of a country, to be His people. Not because they WERE anything, but because they WEREN'T. That from this nothing country He brought a savior into the world and began to write his story of His glory through history.
Now, 2000 years later, this little nothing of a country is stealing the show on the US Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy. Why do they even matter? What's their greatest import...export? Are they rich? Are they powerful? Are they big? Do they buy our stuff? Do they owe us money? Nope. Negative to all of the above. They are important for one reason and one reason only...God chose them. A long time ago, God chose them. For the most part they have turned their back on God and are totally unfaithful to Him. They are one of the most secular countries in the world. Their spiritual relevance is that of a tourist destination, not an active place of worship.
However, that doesn't change the fact that God chose them, and no matter how unfaithful they have become to God, when God makes an unconditional promise, He keeps it. So, faithful or unfaithful, if you take on Israel, you're taking on God...not because of Israel's goodness, but because of God's goodness. And, if you stand with them, you stand with God. Since they are tiny and problematic and everyone around them wants them to go away, it would be easier to just forget them and let nature take it's course.
But, we can't forget them. Thousands and thousands of years after they emerged, they are still the major foreign policy topic in the US Presidential Debate. WOW! When God speaks, people listen...even when they don't think He exists!
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