Jinxed Universe

So, I've been thinking of why everyone is so willing to have someone take care of them? Think of it how many times have we heard during this last election of people so excited that Obama is going to pay their mortgage or crying because once he is elected all their problems are going to disappear?

Everyone is talking about how we need the government to do this and that, pay my mortgage, bailout Detroit, change my diapers. Oh, you didn't know I can't change my own? Anyways, it seems the people in general don't want to be responsible for themselves. That they just want to be a lemming that is following the leader no matter where it takes them.

Now why is that? Well, I've been thinking a lot about this. To maintain everyone's right to choose for themselves, we walk a fine line. Now, if we get off that line, it is a downhill slope on each side, so we have to work even harder to get back on the line. Is it easier to go down the slopes? Yes, absolutely! But we are giving up our freedoms when we get off it.

Once we have given up those freedoms we no longer can succeed or fail. Because it is not our decision to make. So, we don't have to fail any more. But we are giving up our rights to succeed. Now, doesn't that sound familiar? Didn't Satan want us to come down here and be forced to do what is right so we could all go to heaven? But, Christ wanted us to have the chance to decide for ourselves and not all of us would return, but we would have made the choice to go to heaven or hell.

We have lost site of what the government is really here for. It isn't here to tell me that I need to wear my seat belt, or that I can't have a gun because we don't want anyone getting shot by one. We need to put it in its place and tell them to let us run our own lives. But, that will only happen if we can get people to understand how important it is that we are responsible for ourselves and our decisions.