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| Ecce Homo by Antonio Ciseri |
We live in times when people have become so desperate, they are willing to put all their faith in political figures, hoping that these actors will save them from the current economic and social apocalypse.
"We have no King but Cesar," the crowds seem to shout! Yet, we are ignorant of that fact that one presidential candidate isn't going to liberate us from the spiritual anarchy that has swept over our country.
America isn't falling apart solely because the current pseudo-Catholic President has implemented bad policies and suffers from a mental disease; he is actually a reflection of the moral and spiritual dementia our country has been suffering from for decades.
America wants to continue to be a global superpower, but it has long-forgotten the motto "In God We Trust". We now trust more in man-made idols than in the one and only Man-God who taught humanity what real trust is: 'Father, not my will, but thine' (Luke 22:42).
Jesus Christ was not only persecuted and injured by his enemies, he was killed by them, crucified on a cross, but he rose again on the third day. That's my hero - and it once used to be America's too. No politician is going to save us from our sins; no candidate can possibly offer us redemption; no actor is going to resurrect this world, only Jesus Christ can and will.
America will be great again when it repents of it's sins and turns to the Christ again. Until it does, it will continue to crown sinners as social messiahs. The reality is that the Christ has already conquered the world and is now crowned with glory and honor (Hebrew 2:9).
Yes, we should fight for America, but we should give our life for the Kingdom.
By Edgar Avendano @latinofilmmaker