So I posted up a blog entry awhile back reflecting on the lessons by one of the founders of Sociology, de Tocqueville. As much as I hated learning about them I realized they did make some good points. Here is my reflection of one such point. (If you don't want to read everything just read the bolded section..hahahaha...that summarizes everything...=p)
"Leaders (and then some)" - 09/28/08
As much as i despise reading Tocqueville, I must admit that this point he makes in Democracy in America is what lacks within our leadership both within the political and spiritual arena.
“To instruct democracy, if possible to reanimate its beliefs, to purify its mores, to regulate its movements, to substitute little by little the science of affairs for its inexperience, and knowledge of its true interests for its blind instincts; to adapt it government to time and place; to modify it according to circumstances and men: such is the first duty imposed on those who direct society in our day.”
Tocqueville has made a valid point, to summarzie, "without going back to the basics everything will fall". Without adapting the basics, the principles that founded our nation" to the current situation will be the fall of democracy. It is NOT possible for one to say they stand for democracy and yet stand unwavering in the possibility that change is the only necessity, that the basics are not needed to be applied to this change.
I think this can go for Christianity as well, it’s all about going back to the basics, going back to the simple message on the Cross which is LOVE. Often times, Christians seem to forget that nothing else matters except the fact that God loves us and that we (should) love Him back. We become bogged down with events, groups, fellowship outings, the problems of others, our own emotions and thoughts that we forget who God is and who we are. God is God, an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God; who are we to set God on the back burner and put our ministries, our relationships with other people, our jobs, our schooling, our dreams and ambitions before Him.
I must confess that is what I have been doing. For a year or two now God has been trying to get my attention and i’ve done nothing but ignore Him, why? Because I was hurt and did not want to go through that pain again. I put up a facade for so long people assumed i was okay and that i had no problems. I was scarred deeply and it has been taking awhile to heal but i know it slowly but surely is. Each time i ignored Him, i forgot that God is the loving God who knows what He’s doing and that I have nothing to fear. The saying of “you have nothing to fear but fear itself” is completely wrong, the right way to say it is, “YOU have nothing to fear, PERIOD!”
All I have to do is remember that GOD LOVES ME for who I am. All that guilt of not being perfect is not necessary. NO duh! No one but Christ himself is perfect, who are we to try to BE perfect? We can do our best to please Him and do the right things but that does not mean if we are NOT perfect we are not Loved. Many churches have been pounding in the idea that one must BE perfect to be loved. Where in the Bible does it say this? If you can show me Biblical proof I'll take back all this and go back to the church that hurt me because obviously I was wrong.
Either way, it is all about the basics... so I don't know how YOU spell BASIC but I spell mine BIBLE the one thing I know is filled with LOVE.
w0w! who knew Tocqueville could inspire such an entry? lol
