July 28, 2010
Galvanized
Sarah Palin cannot be dismissed as a political force and one reporter describes her as having the power to ‘galvanize the Republican Party’. According to Webster’s to galvanize is, “to subject to the action of an electric current…; to stimulate or excite as if by an electric shock”. I’m reminded of the power that left Jesus when the woman touched His cloak or the healing power that came through the touch of the Apostles hands. We sometimes need to be reminded that the Holy Spirit has given us power to galvanize others.
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Gail;
-----I have to admit Sarah Palin inspires me to resist the pop politics of the left. I guess that is in some way a galvanization. But she also inspired me to resist supporting her as any sort of presidential prospect when she endorsed John McCain over J.D. Hayworth. I know she owed him politically for his placing her into the national view during his presidential 2008 campaign. But you don’t cast your pearls before the swine. I am not saying John McCain is a pig. I am using a well known expression; Mr. McCain is as much worthy of love and respect as is any other person. But his shady, left-wing tendencies are not worthy of political office. He is more in the mold of Scott Brown, Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham - the mold which has paved the highway for major government intervention into our free market and prying eyes into your private bank and credit card transactions. He is the kind of politician who keeps people asking, “What difference is there between Democrats and Republicans?” Ms. Palin would have shown presidential discretion by finding some way of paying her debt other than a political way.
-----Integrity is what must galvanize the Republican party. And it would be nice if it galvanized the Democrat party, too. And the rest of us. But integrity is a concept, not a person. And as such it must be brought to view in a person, or in many. Ronald Reagan brought it forth during a time when America was suffering decline from a decade of market tampering politics. In the face of overwhelming media noise, Mr. Reagan refused to intervene in the markets. Rather, he deregulated many of them. His refusal led us into the unprecedented twenty years of economic growth which the Clinton administration ruined by intervening with bank lending standards. When Mr. Reagan visited Berlin, he was cautioned about all the “ears” the communist East Bloc maintained. So he stepped onto the patio of his suite and loudly proclaimed the ills of collectivist regimes. Later that same day he stood in front of the Berlin wall and called for Gorbachev to “...bring down this wall,” ignoring the front East Berlin’s building of the wall was to the Soviet Union’s demand that it be built. Mr. Reagan did not tolerate popular protocol which was not also proper protocol. Ms. Palin could take a lesson or two. And so should the rest of our politicians, and also should we who elect them.
-----Nor would Jesus or His apostles been galvanizing had they not integrity. The Father would not have been with any of them had they not walked the righteousness they talked. There would not have been miracles. There would not have been the indwelling of the Spirit. They did not define the concept of benefit to be what produced effects for their own personal agendas. They accepted its definition as being what makes good for all in all times, whether it be made through difficulty or with ease. Witness Jesus on the cross. Sarah could have done a bit of cross time when it came to endorsing a candidate for Arizona’s senate seat. And if we might have the galvanizing power of the Holy Spirit, it may flow at least a little through integrity.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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