The State of Affairs

If you don't already know me, you will discover that I am a centrist who leans to the conservative side in most of my viewpoints. I say 'centrist' because I think it is important to keep an open mind and reach compromise with those you disagree with (no matter how vehemently). Otherwise, like is often the case in our Congress, nothing gets done. Maybe a few investigations that tend to result in little. Do I seem cynical? Yes, I confess I am.

We spend countless sums of money on illegal immigrants and supporting our own citizens who sadly often prefer not to work, provide lifetime insurance benefits and regular raises to these politicians who seem to often accomplish very little and we inject ourselves and billions into foreign governments who sometimes don't even share the same ideology as we do and even occasionally hate us. We have no term limits for political offices that could really use them, such as the Senate. Our tax code is an unfair mess. Our healthcare system is disastrous in many ways. A person works all their life, dealing with HMOs and bureaucrats making decisions about their care and who they can go to about it and then wind up on medicare and dealing all the same things. Politicians continue scaring seniors by threatening cuts to Social Security that are supposedly being promoted by their opponents. No catching a break.

Everything I have written is hard to dispute. I am sure if I applied more thought to the matter, this post could be far longer than it is. I'm not even touching the moral issues involving parental rights in regard to their children. That one I partially blame on the breakdown of the family unit in our society. But really, what does it all really boil down to? Here's a word that is rarely used in secular conversation about our ills -- and yet I think is at the heart of the matter: SIN (that age-old problem that popped up in Genesis and continues to this day).

Since our first parents transgressed God's law in Eden, things have been on a downhill slide. Death entered the world. That is not what God wanted for His people. The Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -Romans 6:23 KJV

Christians have come to realize sin as the problem. So, what can you do about it? The Bible has a clear solution contained within its pages (simple instructions on how to begin a new, wonderful and eternal life with Jesus): And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. - Acts 16: 31 KJV