Obey Your Government?

"Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities."

"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's."

Do you know who said those wild statements?
God did!
Rom.13:1 and Matt. 22:21

On this planet there are a ton of different governments and God in Holy Scripture says to obey them. To obey both Christ and some governments is difficult at best. It may cost you your life in some countries.
But not here.

What kind of government do we have here in America?
A representative republic is the correct answer.
Who's the king or head?
The President? Wrong.
The Senate? Wrong.
The House of representatives? Wrong.
The Supreme Court? Wrong.
It's 'WE THE PEOPLE!'

The president, senators, and representatives are our employees. We hire them to govern our fair land. They 'rule' at the consent of the governed. WE THE PEOPLE have set the parameters. It's all in a handy dandy little book we call The Constitution of the United States of America. They have specific delineated powers and NO MORE! And what's more, they take an oath to do exactly what their job description says.

We call the first ten amendments of the Constitution the Bill of Rights. They describe rights that WE THE PEOPLE have. It tells our leaders how far they can go. The Bill of Rights is our protection FROM our leaders should they deteriorate into dictators, such as we have today.

God did not tell us to obey a government we don't have. He didn't tell us to obey a monarchy, or a dictatorship, or Marxist government, or a Semitic government or a Roman government. We are not serfs in America. We are citizens. We judge the leaders, and require them to do their job, NOT the job they would prefer but the one described in the Constitution.

In this government WE THE PEOPLE have been given a huge responsibility to our neighbors. We are the guards of the hen house. We MUST for our own sake and the sake of our neighbors be active in scrutinizing those we pick to govern us. It's called being good citizens.
Don't even try to tell me a lazy uninformed citizen is a good neighbor or following the Word of Scripture. As much as the current occupant of the office of president objects, we ARE supposed to scream and yell at HIM and our other representatives, for their abuse of power. This president is so far outside the bounds of the Constitution he should be taken out in handcuffs and thrown in prison.

A good citizen watches, listens carefully, guards their neighbor against an abusive government, gathers information, analyzes a candidate's resume, demands constitutionality, then votes accordingly and continues to be vigilant. Last election too many of our so-called citizens thought voting for a person with absolutely no resume whatsoever, was a good idea. Hopefully they've recovered from their grand national delusion.

Unfortunately we took a bad turn into socialism in the early 1900's. Certain presidents took giant leaps further into it, such as Wilson and FDR. Most of our politicians are to some degree socialistic. They grew the central government into a behemoth and at this time require approximately 50% of the citizens to pay for the other 50%. This is a sin. This is awful.
And then we elected Barack Obama. The damage he has caused to our citizens, is exponential. By the time he leaves we will be a nation of babies, with no responsibility for anything in our lives. The job producers will ALL leave the country and WE THE BABIES will have no clue how to change our own diapers.
Or...
We could recover the office of citizen and do our job by putting those that would 'rule' us to the test. Make them prove they are constitutional, prove they will work hard to recover the Constitution, and prove they respect the citizens of this country.

You can get the funny Government At Work T-Shirts, Cards, and Buttons at The Smokin' Frog Conservative T-Shirts. But as a fair warning, our 'constitutional' government may soon outlaw this stuff.