Citizenship

There is a big push in our country to limit immigration to this country, some of it so that immigrants will not compete with Americans for jobs.

I see a lot of hard working immigrants in our country; Hispanics, Nigerians, Chinese… to name a few. I also see a lot of Americans who just flat won’t work. They would rather live off of government programs.

If I had my way citizenship in this country would not be based upon where you were born but on your character and your drive to work. That’s right… you could have your citizenship revoked based on a lack of these attributes.

That’s not a strange or foreign concept. It describes something similar to what happened with God’s nation, Israel. The people had become elitist and arrogant and despised those who were not Jews. God condemned them for their lack of character… their hypocrisy, their inconsistency and their twisting of his laws to suit themselves. He changed the rules for citizenship in his nation. No longer would it be based on who you were and where you were born… it would be based on Christian character… on faith.

Of course basing citizenship in America on character will not ever happen and we are perhaps doomed to follow in the footsteps of Israel and become an “elitist, arrogant nation who despises those who are not us.” Let’s be good citizens of the nation of America but more importantly let’s be good citizens of the nation of God.