If you are looking to anything or anyone except Christ for salvation,
then you are deceiving yourself. Even confessing Christians continue to
seek salvation in something or someone else besides Christ. Among the
many idols that can draw us away from Christ, entitlement programs are
surely at the top of the list, with the government being the origin of
such benevolence.
The government is ordained by God do punish
evildoers and maintain order in a society, but it cannot save the soul,
and it definitely cannot create a utopia of some sort. Government cannot
save because it is made up of sinful people that are at best
instruments in the hands of the Almighty God.
Christ alone can
bring salvation, ultimate justice, peace, joy, love, and prosperity.
Such an absolute system will not occur in its fullness until Christ
returns and imposes His right hand upon the world with wrath upon the
wicked and gracious merciful love upon His sheep.
Therefore, cling to Christ, and do not put your ultimate hope in a politician or a political system.
To Him be the glory!
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