“It’s never been more divided!”~ President Biden
In today’s America, there seems to be a lot of alienation happening. It seems like every news article and every piece of media is so focused on either being liberal or conservative. They push conflicting viewpoints on the same event and make our country seem divided like we have no middle ground. This kind of mindset has even bled into the religious world. “So and so believes this about scriptures, they are liberal/conservative”. Our culture would want us to see each other as one label or another, before seeing each other as fellow souls needing Christ. So this “us versus them” mindset is pushed relentlessly. Everywhere we turn we are faced with this question:
Which way do you lean? As Christians, we don’t (or shouldn’t) lean. We stand. We stand firm on the everlasting Word of God. “Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.” (1 Corinthians 15:1). We need to stop being a conservative first, or a liberal first, or an American first, and put God first. Proverbs 3:6 says this, “In everything you do, put God first”. Be a Christian before any other label. Because, the lens by which we should see everything else isn’t the news, it is Scripture, And our middle ground isn’t the ballet box, it is Christ and our need for him.