Walking the path

You wouldn’t think I would still be learning my weaknesses and how to think at my age. For some months, I believe the Lord has led me away from politics. For quite some time now, my only involvement had been to vote and discuss politics with friends. The Lord apparently wants to show me some things, but I am not yet ready to understand them.

When people are in a cult, they don’t know they’re in a cult. The cult tells them the only approved sources of information and how to understand it. When they hear some truth from an outsider, they are either told or assume it’s from the devil. Since the Lord is telling me to step away, I suppose something keeps me from fully walking with the Lord.

It turns out this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. There’s more than one icon on my phone I can push, and it will tell me of all the political infighting going on. It feels like there’s some sort of addiction there, a little bit like when I was a teenager and had a porn magazine hidden under my mattress.

I haven’t been a part of a political party in years. My liberal friends believe I’m conservative, and my conservative friends think I’m liberal. I’ve discovered the truth in the fortune cookie proverb: The man who stands in the middle of the road gets hit by cars going in both directions.

Politics and walking with the Lord work on two completely different systems. If I must choose one because of my weaknesses, I pick the Lord.