Blame & Responsibility

I've always been a closet politician except when someone just seems to be spouting off crazy political rhetoric that irritates me, then I've been known to stir people up or rub people the wrong way. I've come to realize something about politics though, that now keeps me from jumping on any bandwagon or setting an ambush for the other bandwagon. The fact of politics hinges on the choice between "Blame and Responsibility". Most people would take that and turn it into blaming the other guy and creating a fantastic mirage of how you are going to be responsible for magically making things all better, or at least better than the other guy could do. I'm talking about the choice of blaming someone else for how things have been handled, or taking responsibility for it yourself. I'm not seeing many people do the latter. As Christians we are responsible to influence the world we live, taking the steps to transform it into the Kingdom of God. This isn't done by blaming others, but by stepping up and taking on the responsibility. We have been empowered by the Holy Spirit, we have no excuse for not doing what God calls us to do. In this nation with the freedoms to positively influence others in just about any imaginable way, we find ourselves screaming at one another about why we are losing our wealth, why we are squandering our power, and slipping into the oppression of the systems of this world. We need to be taking responsibility for our downfalls, asking forgiveness from those we have failed to influence positively, and start acting like heirs to the throne of God!