Today's Devotional

 

 April 20, 2009

                                                                                                             

Subject:  When Did I Become A Terrorist?

Isaiah 5:20 "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

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I don't know when it happened or why, but all of a sudden, based on the latest Department of Homeland Security memo, I'm seemingly a bad guy; a potential right wing extremist terrorist and if we use their criteria, I'm one for sure.

The report released last week warns about the possibility of violence by right-wing extremist groups and goes on to identify people that could be part of these groups.  They are people who are (1) concerned about illegal immigration, (2) strongly opposed to abortion, (3) concerned about increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms and (4) they are probably veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan.  I check all four blocks so I guess I should turn myself in before I blow up something.

The reality is, if you stand for right in a wrong world, you will become the hater.  When the world calls good evil, they are the haters.  The fact that someone would use the word of God as the basis for protecting unborn children isn't evil, but the world, ruled by the prince of darkness, thinks otherwise.  

I am not a terrorist bent on the destruction of my country; never have been; never will be, but I think that if my country continues to call evil good and good evil, it won't need terrorists, it will destroy itself.         

Carlen