My Side of the Debate

As  I observe  our society, and the debates about gay marriage , gun laws, liberalism and conservatism, I sometimes want to put my 2 cents into the discussion. I usually hold back. I am not naturally opinionated and outspoken. I never felt like I could argue good or “out wit” an opponent. It take a lot for me to speak my mind or even get mad. I do have strong convictions when it come to my world though – Bible Truths, or music theory and guitar playing, or how to run a restaurant and manage people.  But I don’t want to disagree because I feel I am right and dogmatic. My motive is to see you helped. To experience Joy based on the Truth given to us by our Creator. Romans 14 helped me see this. It shares a principle – a truth- that has helped me plenty. It has been called the principle of the lesser brother.   The first four verses read:     
      Welcome those who are weak in faith, but do not argue with them about their personal opinions. ² Some people’s faith allows them to eat anything, but the person who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables. ³ The person who will eat anything is not to despise the one who doesn’t; while the one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything; for God has accepted that person. ⁴ Who are you to judge the servants of someone else? It is their own Master who will decide whether they succeed or fail. And they will succeed, because the Lord is able to make them succeed.
The last 8 verses read :
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died! ¹⁶ Do not let what you regard as good get a bad name. ¹⁷ For God’s Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives. ¹⁸ And when you serve Christ in this way, you please God and are approved by others.
¹⁹ So then, we must always aim at those things that bring peace and that help strengthen one another. ²⁰ Do not, because of food, destroy what God has done. All foods may be eaten, but it is wrong to eat anything that will cause someone else to fall into sin. ²¹ The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make other believers fall. ²² Keep what you believe about this matter, then, between yourself and God. Happy are those who do not feel guilty when they do something they judge is right! ²³ But if they have doubts about what they eat, God condemns them when they eat it, because their action is not based on faith. And anything that is not based on faith is sin.

All your feelings and debates about personal matters- I say keep between you and the Lord. Don’t try to change the country because 4% or so believe in your thoughts on a subject. If it is right– The Bible just said that God will help you succeed. ( See above verse 4). For all those who feel so strong on a subject, we can find smarter more distinguished people who disagree with you. That goes for all of us.   > ⁷ For God’s Kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of the righteousness, peace, and joy which the Holy Spirit gives. 
Peace – Joy  – Righteousness -  that is the evidence that you are right in your convictions. Did you ever notice how those who are so intent on pushing their  ways -their modern liberal views” lack those qualities?  Did you watch Andrew Breitbart’s anticipated and last film ” Occupy Unmasked” ? OH SORRY . I didnt mean to get political…. but this is my blog..