Taxes, Taxes, Taxes

Taxes are all the rage with this round of elections.  In my home state of Washington 100% of the Initiatives and Referendums are about how the state can raise money.  From a biblical stand point the reason for the existence of the state is to provide for law and order and defend the people from outside threats, it is not the place of the state to provide for the peoples under its' protection, this is the role of the church.

The church, Biblically speaking, is the provider of both health and welfare of the people and should be the conscience of the state.  Look around the country many hospitals were found not by the state but by church run organizations.  During real times of need, in the past, the church is one to step up and provide for people.  When the state begins to step into this arena money becomes wasted, but more than that the church loses a major area of outreach and has caused it to become complacent about reaching out to the "widow and orphan". 

If the state is worried about budget short falls, which it should, it should return funding and management of health and welfare programs to the churches and once again focus on providing for the protection of it people from external and internal threats. 

The Squirrels must be Nuts

Have you every seen a squirrel in the middle of the road while an oncoming car bears down on it.  The poor squirrel will stand there trying to decide whether to left or right, the conversation would go something like this, "left no wait right, no left, no right, no left, no rig....<Splat>".  This is much like past and present political systems, and hence a little nutty.  The politicians spend their days saying yes and no but never really taking a solid stand because they are afraid being politically incorrect would lose their positions of power.

Again, consider the squirrel, during the season of nut collection he goes out grabs what he needs and stores them in his home so that he has no need over the course of a winter.  The modern government does not see this as an appropriate method, they feel the squirrel should collect his nuts and give it to the weasel so that the squirrel must depend on the weasel for his winters survival.  Unfortunately we have chosen the weasels to run the country instead of allowing the squirrels to manage their own affairs.

This blog is about politics, national and international events.  But more than that, it is about how God's hand is working in and through events.