I really find my self getting more ticked off as the days go on & on.
I feel like I always have to be apologetic because I live in America.
Anyone who knows even a little about me in my daily life,knows I am not some big nutty red white & blue patriot. I've never been one of those people who thinks this country is perfect or has all the answers or thinks it should get involved in every other countries business.
As a christian I am told to forgive,think the best of others,be kind,patient,loving,etc...
Yet every time I turn around I hear this group of people or this country or this religion bashing America,and even more "unfairly" bashing all Americans.
I just happened to be born here. Does it mean I support everything that goes on here? NO!
The secular media & hollywood types would have me be "tolerant" to gays,lesbians,every other gender,art,religions,people groups,etc...but these types aren't tolerant of me,or even my faith.
Turn the other cheek!!!!!!
Did Jesus in his humanity ever just want to knock someone right out??? I know he never sinned,but he was all God & all man. If he was tempted as we are & has known all we suffered,then surely he must have had moments (other than the temple clearing of the vendors) where he felt so fed up with things.
I expect to have non-believers give me grief because I live in morbidly obese,oil hungry,gun obsessed,rain forest destroying,capitalistic,in God we trust america...
but when other "chrisitians" do it & say those things it kinda bothers me.
Where's the love,man?
Many christians from other countries are like that too...it's almost like some strange form of racism.
They'll be polite to your face,"oh God Bless you brother/sister",but then behind your back or even in casual conversation they'll slip in a little sarcastic jab about america,or those wacky americans & their McDonald's..such fatties,the lot of them!
I will say this...people seem to hate us because we're americans...and twice as much if yer' an american who loves Jesus,but who are the first people they come running to when their country needs money,or weapons,or protection,of food,or medical supplies,or fresh drinking water,or clothes????????????????????????????????????????????
Our men & woman can go get blown to smithereens for something they don't believe in,for people they'll never know,all because they are doing what our government asks them to do...not because they want to,because it's their job.
No love.
and worse...no love from chrisitans either.
I'm kinda just sick of it all.
sick of me.
sick of you.
sick of us.
I can only imagine how sick we make God's heart.
...and He still loves me.
loves you.
loves us.
I wonder if we'll ever get our act together?