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I want my padded room!

If our government is going insane and driving the ones they represent with them, then at least they could provide me with a new white jacket and a padded room.
Seriously though, it feels like either those who serve us at capital hill have lost it, or we are just not in touch with the world today. Then again, maybe that is all part of the King of Kings plan. He has called us to be not of the world, and yet we find ourselves trying to hold onto our worldly possessions. I am not talking about our cars, boats, ATVs and vacation timeshares. I am talking about our rights, our freedoms, our country.
I read from alternate news media about people opposing the government takeover of health care and the continued expansion of the North American Union agenda, which is part of the plan for a New World Order. I read they want our guns, they want our children, they want to torture (tase) the innocent, and it drives me mad. My heart wants to put these tyrants in their place, but spirit does not agree.
My spirit tells me this is not my fight. The Holy Spirit convicts me of wanting to repay these acts against the Constitution with do justice. Where is the gospel in this great out cry for freedom. The Bible clearly paints an unpleasant picture of the world as the hour glass runs out of sand, so instead of taking up arms against the tyrants, shouldn't we be on our knees for the lost. Why don't I hear the bride of Christ acknowledging that the grooms return is near and pleading with the lost to join in the wedding?
Where is my voice? Where is the focus of my passion? Is it on my rights and freedoms, or is it on the freedom I find in Christ? If I use the Bible as a filter to see the world then I know what my passion should be. I know what the bride of Christ should be doing, and it might require knee pads. If the body of Christ gets caught up in all this turmoil over what is to come, then who will spread the gospel? Who will be the example of Christ to the living dead? Who will intercede for the souls of those deceived?
I pray that I have the strength to speak the truth through Christ. I understand that the elected of this country may not listen to their constituents and may put into place a national health care system no matter what the people want. That if they are willing to put the want of one man over the wishes of an entire country, then what else are they willing and ready to do? If I speak out against homosexuality and abortion I am in danger of going to prison. For speaking God's truth the body of Christ will be persecuted.
John 17:14-16
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. (15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. (16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Christ told us that the world would hate us for speaking God's truth but that should not stop us. Yes, speak out against the injustice but do so in a manner that God is glorified. How dare we hold onto certain unalienable rights that are endowed by the Creator without giving Him glory in the first place. If God has blessed this county with liberty, have we been thankful for this blessing or have we abused it. Has this country used "liberty" as an excuse to slaughter those who can't protect themselves? Has this country used "liberty" as an excuse to create an industry of lust?
Has this country used "liberty" to remove the Creator from the creation? And now we ask why our liberties are being taken away. Where was the voice of the bride of Christ when the lost started taking this country down the slippery slope of sin? I know where I was, and it wasn't speaking to my neighbor, my representatives, or my Lord.
Maybe I deserve a padded room for thinking that my worldly liberties were protected by a document when my eternal liberties had to be purchased with the blood of the Son of God.

Bible verses (KJV) that I came across while posting this:
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Isaiah 59
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.