"31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
— Jesus Christ, Matthew 6:31-33 (NIV)
UPDATE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/12/samuel-l-jackson-obama-vote-black_n_1271797.html Dear Ones:
Sometimes it's the 'small things' that really get to us. What may seem to be small matters to some, can be a VERY BIG DEAL to others. Sometimes, solitary issues can even impel us to think about doing things we really shouldn't do. And in some cases, we actually 'go through with it' and SAY or DO things that just are not right for anyone to utter or act upon.
Such is the case, especially, in POLITICS. Emotions and 'good intentions' run high and we can all get 'caught up' in making our cases.
It's a 'stickey-wicket', alright, especially since in the sense of 'absolute truth', God is and will ever be our Judge in the end, and no one else. Until such time, the best we can do is to NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, EVER.
This is easier said than done, because man's inclination is to push the limits. Many people think that Scripture tells us 'not to judge'. Actually, we are told that we may judge, just so long as we hold ourselves to the same criteria with which we judge others. JESUS SAID,
1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Mt 7:1-2 (NIV)
http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/7.html
Yet here is a modern-day example of how the emotions of politics can obfuscate people's abilities to discern between the truth and the 'non-truth' and between what they can say and what they should say:
DOES DAN MALLOY HAVE A PROBLEM TELLING THE TRUTH? From TOM FOLEY CANDIDATE FOR CONNECTICUT STATE GOVERNOR
September 15th, 2010
Dan Malloy’s latest taxpayer funded negative ad is untruthful and begs the question whether Malloy is loose with the truth.
THE FACTS ARE THESETom Foley saved the Bibb Company, a struggling textile company, he bought in 1985. Bibb employed over 3,000 more people in 1996 when he sold the business than when he bought it. There were never 2,000 jobs lost and Tom Foley never fired anyone at Bibb. When he sold the company he ensured that workers’ pensions and medical benefits were protected. When the new owners closed a plant in Columbus, Georgia two years later, Tom had nothing to do with the business. Tom Foley never made $20 million from the Bibb Company.
Dan Malloy is not only not being truthful about Tom Foley’s record, he has been caught in a lie about his own record. In his latest ads Dan Malloy claims he created thousands of jobs in Stamford, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics disagrees. According to Chris Keating of the Hartford Courant, the BLS shows that Stamford has lost 13,000 jobs since 2000 and has 5,000 fewer jobs than when Dan took office in 1995.
“On the campaign trail Dan Malloy says if he is governor he will tell us the truth. If that’s the case, he’s off to a very bad start. Dan’s misrepresenting my background and being caught in lie about his own seriously call into question his qualifications to be Governor.”“Character counts in Connecticut. More than ever, Connecticut needs strong leadership it can trust. Dan Malloy’s latest ads sound like a typical career politician who will do and say anything to get elected. Connecticut needs more than that in its next Governor to set a new direction for the state, bring jobs and the economy back, and solve our daunting fiscal crisis without raising taxes,” said Tom Foley.
http://www.tomfoley2010.com/?p=2229
Calling someone 'a liar' is a rough thing to do. As such, you've got to be SURE, knowing that YOU will be held accountable yourself, for what you do and say. Just fyi, in this 'Bibb' matter which I've been following and looking into for a while, I'm pretty certain that what's being flung at Tom Foley stems more from 'union politics' than anything else, but what do I know?
I'm just a political 'newbie' from the Obama/Wright church making my way through the political morass afoot this election year.
Is Dan Malloy 'lying' about Tom Foley and Bibb? I sure hope not. Maybe the heat of the moment just got the best of Dan, for surely no good can come from a political strategy based on outright lies.
Not only is it wrong to bear false witness against political opponents, but lying about that which is readily verifiable just makes one look 'weak and silly'.
CT is an abysmal place for corporations. I feel certain that Tom Foley along with Mark Boughton are the guys to get this state in order.
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/
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