No Jesus, No Peace!

I didn't write last week because I was so bummed out about the police murders in Dallas.

I was surprised that even President Obama was expressing alarm at this. He even attended the memorial  services for the fallen officers. Later, rhetoric from himself and Mrs. Clinton even alluded to the fact that perhaps there really was a majority of good policemen who faithfully put their lives on the line to protect us all. I have to admit however, that this seems to be just empty rhetoric on their part.

These are the folks who were angry over the fact that officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department was exonerated by (black) eyewitnesses who affirmed that the suspect had tried to wrestle his gun away from him and was shot in the process of this altercation. This is the same President who sent his Justice Department thugs to persecute Officer Wilson and the Ferguson Police in the aftermath of the grand jury verdict that was unfavorable to their pre-conceived presumption of guilt. Officer Wilson, even though exonerated, had to give up his career. I wonder where he is now?

And let us not forget that Hillary Clinton was the one who came down against the Police on at least one other occasion just a few hours after an incident, before all the facts were known (no, I didn't write down the event on the calendar, but look it up and see).

Obama and Clinton have, with the help of their media henchmen, created an environment where police officers (of all races and ethnic backgrounds) are presumed in the wrong in any case that can be remotely considered "racial" in nature. Now they (we) are paying a dear price for this as we did in Dallas, and now Baton Rouge and elsewhere. Our country is paying a dear price for their politically motivated rhetoric. We have sown the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7).

Against this backdrop, I had taken Sunday the tenth off for personal reasons, and I went to my home church. It is a small church, but even for us there were not many present. Usually there are around 20 of us in attendance, this week there were only 10. A spontaneous discussion broke out between Sunday School and Worship service regarding the events in Dallas. Still bummed out about the whole thing, I didn't participate but just listened (which anyone who knows me will realize is quite unusual). The discussion was supportive of Police in general, and of the fallen officers in Dallas in particular. I found this particularly gratifying. The real revelation however, was when I looked about the room at the group. Of the ten of us, there were two Hispanics, two Oriental (Korean), one black man, and five Caucasians; a diverse group indeed, somewhat representative of our greater society. At this point I realized that our relationship with Jesus Christ was the fact that unified us into one body, and that truly our Lord Jesus Christ is the answer, the only answer for the trouble in which we seem to find ourselves in our nation and in our world today. Our Lord Jesus is the only one capable of unifying us for good. I think that someone in the group even voiced that time-honored truth: "No Jesus, no peace; know Jesus, know peace".

Thanks for sharing this moment with me today.

Pray for our nation. Pray for our world. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem