God's thoughts and God's Ways

“ 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
'For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.' "

Isaiah 55:8-9


It's no secret that the white American evangelical Church marches in lock-step with our country's (falsely so-called) "conservative" political faction. Every "conservative" thought and way is faithfully parroted by white American evangelicals. On every "issue" of the day, white American evangelicals will take the same "position," and adduce the same reasoning for it, as their political manipulators: social issues, foreign policy, legislation, military affairs.

It's a simple question: are human politics God's thoughts and ways, or man's ? If the latter, the white American evangelical Church has forsaken God, His thoughts, and His ways.

Religious People Are SO Full of Crap

It's not the way Jesus chose to express it: but "religious people are SO full of crap" lines up with His reviling the religious leaders and people of His time as "hypocrites," spiritual fakers.

It's a message (surprise, surprise) we seldom hear from the religious leaders and people of our time: at least, not as applicable TO our time. But it is.

Religious people are SO full of crap.

Jesus had God's Own authority to judge the deep motives of men's hearts. I don't. And I know that even well-intentioned Christians, whose honest desire is to follow and glorify Jesus, can do morally foolish deeds; because God gives me glimpses of my OWN moral foolishness. Only He Who is without sin can judge sinful men.

But scripture teaches that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." From our heart-ruling spirit flow the "springs of life:" and what we do shows what we truly, deeply, ARE. Jesus Alone has God's Own wisdom to see, and authority to judge, what people are. But in the Body of Christ, we have His wisdom and and His authority to judge men's deeds: to be "fruit-inspectors."

The observation that "religious people are SO full of crap" fills the bill. It speaks God's Own disgust at the false and foul "religious" works of men...even Christian men. And speaking God's disgust surgically lays bare the diseased heart: no one takes offence at the words except those who, in their deepest being, believe they ARE "religious people."

I love to speak God's message: religious people are SO full of crap.