Is It Too Much To Ask?

I truly hope you took time to vote in the general election this year. As a wise man told me a long time ago, “You’ve got no right to complain if you don’t take the time to exercise your right to vote.” If a citizen isn’t involved in the process of electing those who represent them and their interests in government, then they have no room to squawk. And, in my opinion, the reason we have selfish representation in our state and federal governments is the total lack of election poll attendance. Complain all you want, but the only way to change the status-quo is through you, and your vote.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if we could have voted on the “Congressional Reform Act of 2010”? You haven’t heard of it? Let me brief you. (Tongue in cheek) (1) Term Limits: 12 years only, for any one person. For example: A. Two six year Senate terms. B. Six two year House terms. C. One six year Senate term and three two tear House terms. Twelve years total, and you’re out for life! (2) No Tenure/No Pension… A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when out of office. (3) Congress (past, present and future) shall participate in the Social Security Program or Congressmen can purchase their own retirement plan, just like all Americans do. (4)Congress will no longer have the power to vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional raises will reflect cost of living raises the same as all other government recipients’. (5) Congress must participate in the same health care system as the American public. (6) Congress will equally abide in all laws they have and will impose on the American people they represent. Is this too much to ask for? I don’t think so.
[Colossians 3: 1 - 4: 1] Is God asking too much of the Christian for righteous living? If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two, if he came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do. Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored guest; that serving Him in your home would be joy beyond compare! But when you saw Him coming, would you meet Him at the door, with your arm outstretched in welcome to your Heavenly Visitor? Or would you have to change your clothes before you let Him in, or hide some magazines and place the Bible where they’d been? Would you turn off the radio and hoped He hadn’t heard and wished you hadn’t uttered that last, loud, hasty word? Would you hide your worldly music and put some hymn books out? Could you let Jesus right in, or would you rush about? And I wonder, if the Savior spent a day or two with you, would you go right on doing the things you always do? Would you keep right on saying the things you always say, would life for you continue as it does from day to day? Would your family conversations keep up there usual pace? Would you find hard each meal to say a table grace? Would you sing the songs you always sing or read the books you always read, and let Him know the things on which your mind and spirit feed? Would you take Jesus every place you had planned to go, or would you maybe change your plans for just a day or so? Would you be glad for Him to meet your very closest friends, or would you hope they’d stayed away until His visit ends? Would you be glad for Him to stay forever on and on, or would you sigh with great relief when He at last was gone? It would be interesting to know the things you would do, if Jesus came in person to spend the holidays with you. (Luke 19: 1-10) Are you like Zacchaeus, wanting to see Jesus? He repented his worldly ways for salvation.