Where Do Your Loyalties Lay ? Good Or
Evil ?
The fact of life is, that everyone is
loyal towards something and or
someone. There's no doubt about that. You don't have to belong to a
certain political party to believe that fact. A person's loyalty towards
things and
or people however in Western nation's, especially here in America
are often skewed and misplaced on the most part. Folks in America in
fact often mark their loyalties towards
themselves as primary beneficiaries. In fact, I would even go so far as
to say most
Americans(not all, but the majority of) Americans are quite selfish in
regards to where and whom they place their loyalty towards things
including their finances.
Yes, yes, I know... I've heard it before... "American's give more to
charities than any other people group around the world." That said and
acknowledged, many Americans however only give to simply make
themselves feel
better, not to bring about real positive change(I'm so blessed to have
supporters of my ministry who are Not like that). The Biblical view of
sacrificially giving(Mark 12:41-44) is definitely different than the
view of most in the West. It is simply not
in the heart of most Americans to sacrificially when they do give. So
when many
Americans open their wallets to give, but then because they rarely give
to help others, moths fly out of their wallets and the birds
awaken and sing “cheap, cheap, cheap” from the window of that
particular giver(not really, but you get the point). You see, the
loyalty to self as the modus
operandi of many Americans and Westerners often comes into play for
most. Even when they do
give, the motivating factor is primarily to have that self
gratifying feeling.
Folks that live in what the Bible calls
the “world” or “the flesh” almost always live a life pleasing
unto themselves. Loyalty to others always comes at a price. That price
you ask ? Well, to put it in it's simplest terms, I've heard people
tell myself as well as others; “ If you scratch my back, I'll scratch
yours. “
This phrase is a simple idiom. For my readers unfamiliar with Western
cultures, Americans and Europeans when they quote this phrase are
not literally scratching one another's backs. The meaning of this phrase
is, that if you do
me a favor, I'll do a favor for you also. In other words, It's
telling someone that you will only help that person if they help you
first. Gaining something tangible from a person is paramount before
helping someone else in need. For some folks, telling someone “If
you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours” really sounds more like
“Gimmie mine's first.” If a person is in true need and she/he asks for
help, the person helping should state and it should sound like, “how
can I be of help?” or “how can
I be a blessing to you ?” Very often in Western nations and Western
cultures folks don't operate in the later form because their primary
loyalty is not towards Jesus of the Bible, instead, it is focused on
self gratification. For many who seem to be unaware, communicating to
someone that "I want to help you" is much different than saying "My time
has value" or "My gift to you has a cost, just so you know."
Loyalty for the purpose of self
preservation is important but for most who live in the West, life is
much easier and has in many ways been made very comfortable as compared
to most other nations
especially in third-world nations. In America, we have access to more
doctors, more medications, more help as compared also to many other
nations and many of us can afford to have less stress regarding who and
what we can and will be
loyal to. Unfortunately, many Americans do not set their loyalties
upon anything other than that of matters of self interests and
ultimately, that turns into disaster not only for them, but for all of
who remain as well. In fact, to be quite frank, because of so many ill
placed loyalties of Americans, they have caused more stress for
themselves because of it. I'll give you some examples... Take Barrack
Husein
Obama, many blacks voted for him not because they thought he was a
better candidate as compared to other choices for President of the
USA, they will quite frankly and honestly will inform you if you ask
them, they voted
for Obama “because he is Black.” Good reason to vote for a
President ? um... no. Haven't Caucasians also done the same foolish
thing in
the past by not voting for Ambassador Alan Keyes to be the Republican
Party Nominee for President ? Dr. Keyes is one of the most intelligent
and able men to be President of the USA I have ever heard speak on
issues in my life(I'm 53 years old) yet many Caucasians did not vote for
him because he is an African-American. Loyalties to vote for or against
someone simply because of their skin color is a ludicrous act and
quite frankly, is also a self defeating act(for the entire nation) as
well. But hey ! That's
where many people put forth their loyalties especially here in America,
it's
self serving loyalty and we all suffer because of it.
Folks who don't do their homework and
“vote down the (political)party line”, vote for friends or to
make friends by voting/campaigning for someone, so that they can gain
some sort of favor in the future, knowingly endorse someone or help
someone who you know is evil minded, or has not the best interest at
heart are all acts of evil. Folks have their loyalties misguided when
they take part in such actions. Because people who partake in such
activities as helping, voting for, endorsing someone who is opposed
to good and moral values, is actually helping not only to heap curses
upon our communities and nation, she/he is also helping to bring upon
our nation closer to it's destructiveness end by violating God's(of
the Bible) precepts. Loyalty to good and Godly people should be the
primary objective for everyone. To often, “self” gets in the way
of getting our family's, children, communities, and nation the help and
justice they desperately need. For those
who live in the “West”, they need to readjust their misguided loyalties
towards others and reset in the proper direction. This is especially
true in the Bible believing Churches.
In fact, for Bible believing churches,
many do not have their loyalties set to Jesus of the Bible as they should. As I see
our brothers and sisters in Christ being murdered, raped, beheaded,
burred alive(children also !!) in the Middle East, even their fellow Westerner's being abused by cops, lawyers, judges, Domestic Violence Programs,, Foreign Immigration Marriage Scammers/Illegal Aliens, CPS agents and other like them, there isn't much movement in
Western churches to become active in rescuing our brothers and sisters in crisis. Most of what I
see in Western "churches" today are only “prayer.” Listen, you can pray all day long(I've said this
a few thousand ties now !) but the Lord has called us to action as well !
Read James 2:17-20. I'm disgusted with most American and European
“Christian” men right now. Many are “grapeless”, heartless
cowards. I have over 4500 Facebook “friends” and I have asked
several times now for especially Biblical men to go to the Middle
East with me and rescue these Christians from death. I
specifically
also stated in my open request on Facebook, that if you do not want to be involved in rescuing Christians from being
slaughtered, at least financially pay for our trip(those who are willing to rescue) and for our needs while over
there. Answer's to my request from folks(“Christians”) ?? All I received was
one Godly woman, willing to help pay something towards our trip. From
“Godly men” ?? Nothing ! Only the sounds of crickets. Yep...
that's where the loyalties of most "Christan" Americans are... more than sad,
their lack of response to help others being raped, buried alive
beheaded and murdered to me is nothing more than disgusting ! But hey, that's where
loyalties lay of most Americans, “Christian” or not.
I highly suggest everyone who dares to
call themselves “good”in whatever form or capacity they state that, whether Black, White, Latino, Asian, a
cop, a judge, a lawyer, a pastor a Christian, a politician, a
teacher, a Tea Party Member, a Democrat, a Republican, a Liberal, a
Conservative, a Libertarian, whatever... all take a serious look at
where their loyalties lay. Folks better start doing some
re-evaluating of where they are putting their loyalties. God is going
to call each of us to account and very soon at that. The bad is
getting worse and the so called “good” in the Western world isn't
anywhere near as “good” as what they are making themselves out to
be. Time to put loyalties and their consequences of where those
loyalties have led us up on trial. Can you be honest with yourself
in this evaluation process of loyalties ? If not, you better get some
honest help, and I do mean “honest help.”
The world is about one inch from tipping
over because in part of misguided loyalties. Better get them laid out
straight pronto !
Rev. Paul P. Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor
