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On "Religion" and Politics

I gotta tell it like I see it: "Religion" and politics seem inseparable today, but holy religion and faith need to remain separated from politics for some very good reasons.

A faithful man who goes into the arena of Politics goes to the place of "statecraft" (the art of conducting state affairs). It is a place of compromise and without doubt a place where the love of money prevails over many souls.

The man who trusts God has no need of defending his life in this arena. Nor does the man of faith need to wage war with his neighbor or his enemies. The man of faith KNOWS that the event of his own mortal demise catapults him to another place, where no trace, not the slightest trace at all of greed, compromise or strife is found. He knows that this is also true for his beloved wife and children, as He trusts God with their destiny.

But let a man of faith enter the arena of politics and watch him. Watch him as forces of the war already being waged against him now cohabit his daily milieu. Watch him as the bad company he must keep begins to corrupt the good moral character God has graciously built into him. Watch him as the accomplishments of his political career rarely influence others to become faithful to God, but merely maintain status quo arrangements, preexisting conditions, matters that he and God would more powerfully CONTROL through PRAYER.

Call men out of sin, but be ever so careful and wary as to how close you get to them as you call. The damage that can be done in one hour of compromise can compromise for a lifetime the good God has done for you. Very few have done much good in political careers. Many have tried. If you are a Wilberforce, then I will not forbid you. But if you are like my own self, a weak and sinful but repentant soul, in need of daily forgiveness from God, I will nearly forbid you, warning you, and encouraging you that what you might do on your knees with God, could outstrip even the good of a Wilberforce.

Our object as men of God? Not to be holier than our brother, our neighbor, or our enemy; but to obey the command: "...he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." 1 Peter 1: 15,16