Opinionated

I am so opinionated.  I feel like its my responsibility to comment when I disagree with a post on Face Book. Am I wrong to do so? Sometimes I just want people to think about what they post. I feel like this blog is a safe place for me to voice my opinion. I don't shove this in your face, but I do invite you to see what I am thinking.  I forget sometimes that my comment is going to show on a particular persons page, and I just want to comment about a particular post, I don't mean for it to be so personal. But how can it not be when it ion that persons face book page. People have a right to post what they want on face book. I feel I have a right to comment, isn't that what the comment line is for? Yet sometimes I feel I overstep my bounds. I tell my story and sometimes there is another side to that story, or another person. In telling my side do I hurt that other person in the process. Sometimes I feel we don't think things through. Our words have impact for good or bad.  Sometimes perhaps I am salt, when I comment on divisive, what I consider to be divisive posts. Once recently I came under a lot of fire for my comments, another time a person graciously said I was right. Do I have the right to interject my self on other peoples post? Is that really what the comment line is for? If it is, why do I sometimes feel I have overstepped my boundaries?  I want to be light and salt to our troubled world, our troubled nation. I guess the important thing that it be said with love. I am not sure  I always do that. Sometimes stuff just aggravates me. Especially when I see a post that divides us as Americans. I don't like to see that. I have an opinion and so does the next guy, but so many times it is like choose who is best Obama or Trump. They were both put in office by God, but I see people that have a hard time believing that. If they are an Obama supporter they have a hard time accepting that God gave us Trump. If they are a Trump supporter, they have a hard time accepting the fact that God gave us Obama.  But I feel they were both at least allowed by God to occupy that space called President. Did they do right or wrong, that is God's call. We as Christians are called upon to honor them. If you support Trump, you don't want to honor Obama. If you supported Obama, you do not want to support Trump. I am here to say both were given by God. Maybe to punish us, I don't know. God's ways are higher than ours and we don't always understand what God is doing. God is sovereign, if Trump is in office or Obama, Bush or Clinton or Reagan. We don't always agree, Husbands and Wives don't always agree, but they love each other and work through it. In a similar way so must we. The Bible tells us to honor the king, in our country that would mean the President. We are told to honor parents, not just the good ones, but all parents. It is hard to do and some families have had better parents than other families, but their is no command to honor only if we think they are good. We are to honor because they are. I think this principle carries over to the office of President.  Read Romans 13:1-7. Yes we are to uphold God's law over national law, that is true. But in politics we have Christians on both sides and we disagree. It is not my job to see if they are really Christians, it is God and God alone that sees into the heart. I believe we need to obey the word to the best of our ability. If it means honoring parents that we think should have done better or if it be a President that God gave us for this term. Lets obey God and see what a difference it can make in our country. Can we work together? Can we be obedient to God's word? Can we love even our enemies, those that we disagree with. Those that interpret the word of God differently than I do. I will stand before God for what I do, not for what you or any other person does. God bless, LVZ.