March 22, 2010
A Commentary
Today much of the talk on Christian talk radio, particularly of the Protestant variety, has been on the passing of the health care bill so important to President Obama. Without a doubt healthcare reform is necessary. That the business of health care and our United States government created this problem from the start is also in my opinion absolutely true.
It is not by the initiation of any one president or party. It is the imbalance of who-gets-what-and-how-much. When CEOs of insurance companies are awarded over $100 million dollars upon leaving their post, whether for retirement or other reasons, while denying the availability to have treatment to others is a terrible injustice. That our elected legislators would rather call each other names rather than sit down in good faith and work together for the good of those who elected them is in essence stealing taxpayer money.
Even more out of alignment is the attitude of many Christians, me included at times. God created the world and God created life. God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Do Christians truly believe that God is in control, or is it true only when circumstances are what we want?
Today I have heard many comments from Christians that sound no different than those who are “of the world.” It would be better for all to commit to a time of prayer every day. Do we say that God is in control, that all works to glorify God, that God will use the bad for His good, but not believe it? One radio spokesperson said today that we “place our hope in the empty tomb” and “not in the government.” That is correct. Yet, does God’s world stop at the borders of Washington D.C.?
We strive to live and do God’s will only when we are not living within God’s will. We supposedly leave all else behind—father, mother, familiar comforts when necessary. What a wonderful demonstration of faith this could have been but for all of the sore loser comments and actions. And yes—it turned into a contest by the manner of opposition.
Becoming that which we abhor and find wrong in human morality and character is an action of great pride. There are no winners, however, because this polarity and lack of willingness to work together makes for no winners—and Christians, humbled by the immense goodness of our loving God, should not be ever the one on top of the heap.
Mary Katherine May
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