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Impeach!

           But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,(Matthew 5:44) 

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (II Chronicles 7:14)


“For I say to you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:20) 

          For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12) 

          Even before Mr. Trump took the oath of office, Democrats and Leftists were calling for his impeachment, declaring him to be a monster, etc. Even before Mr. Biden took the oath of office, Republicans and Rightists were calling for his impeachment, declaring him to be a monster. For the moment, I don’t care how much a monster either man is, or how badly the other side is behaving. What I care about is what monsters those who claim to be Christians are being, and how they are behaving.

          If our first response is “Impeach!” and not “Oh God, save him from his sins. Grant him mercy and salvation. Show him what he must do in accordance with Your will,” we are no better than the world – no better than those whom we denounce as evil because we’re doing what they’ve done or are doing.

          I’m not suggesting we should proclaim the evil that they are doing to be good. It is evil. We must stand against it but pray for and love him (whatever him we’re talking about.) We must speak the truth in love and we must differentiate between declarations of public policy and our treatment of people. We may be opposed to everything that person believes, and everything that person says, but we must love the person, and treat that person with all the dignity deserved by someone created in the image of God, and for whom Jesus Christ came and died on the cross.

          Lord, teach us to see others as You see them, and to love them with Your love, for Your sake if not for their own. Grant us sanctification, and those who offend or oppose us salvation or sanctification as the case may be. Teach us to treat people as Your creation, and the ways of the world as separate and evil – including those ways that have ensnared us. In Jesus’ name, Amen!

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