On Watch

Most people don't enjoy talking politics. I do.  I always have. I remember my dad talking politics often, when I was little. He lectured, really.  One summer afternoon, I had a friend over to the house for a visit; we were sitting outside on the porch and we could hear my dad talking to my mom as they sat in the living room. "Wow!" my friend commented, "He sounds like a news commentator."

He did, I guess; and he knew his stuff.  The funny thing was, I listened.  I listened to every word my dad said. And I learned. I also found myself understanding and I found myself agreeing.  So began my interest in politics.

But what my dad knew at that time - and what I knew, too - was that politics were only important because of our faith. And that was the main reason for our interest.

I will explain that belief in this blog a bit later.  You may have the same belief; or you may be diametrically opposed to such a thought. That's one thing that is so nice about these new-fangled things called blogs. One can express ones opinion, and it can create dialogue, or maybe just food for thought. I hope this blog will do both.  But most of all, what I hope this blog will do is spark an interest for someone like my dad's lectures did for me.

Without being disrespectful in anyway, I purposely chose the title of my blog from Jeremiah 33: 6-7.
"But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned..."

It continues, but I won't quote it all. Some may believe I am taking this verse out of context. But my thought is that this verse points to responsibility, doesn't it? If we see and do not warn, we have not acted responsibly. By saying I don't want to be disrespectful, I mean I do not want to take these verses out of context, and I am certainly not saying that I am any kind of prophet, but I firmly believe we have a duty in our lives to be watchmen.  We need to be watchmen over our own lives; we need to be watchmen for our own families; we need to be watchmen for our nation; and I believe we need to be watchmen over Israel.

Yes, we need to do that with prayer, but we also, I believe, need to do that with action...that's where politics comes in to play and I will explain that belief more fully later, too.

While we spend our time as watchmen of protection, willing and diligent in sounding alarms that in this day and age certainly often need to be sounded, we also watch for the return of One that makes everything fall into place - The One that will make everything right. We watch in hopes that we might bring others to safety.

So the purpose of this blog:  To watch; to share; to alert; to compile...to watch. I watch in hopes of bringing others along.

So therein lays my interest in politics. To work actively, to ensure our freedoms are preserved so that we might continually share our faith..."till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth."

"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."   Isaiah 62: 6-7