Whatever problem we find exposed in our nation, our knee-jerk reaction is to look to the state to save us. We expect it to have the power and the responsibility to do something about it and fix all our woes. But since when has it been the state's responsibility to make us good? To make our children obedient? Our families godly?
One of the problems with this messianic expectation of the state is that it weakens our gospel expectations and resolve. When we see broken lives, families and communities around us, we wait to see what the state will do, wondering what initiative will make things better. But all the state can do is put a plaster over the cancer. Its the gospel of Jesus Christ that can and will actually change lives, families and our nation. Lets stop looking to the state to fix all our woes and instead look to Jesus, the only hope for our nation.
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And connected to your previous post, what the state tries to do to fulfil this Messianic expectation is bring in more laws. And education. As if all we need is to be informed and regulated and sin will disappear.
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