When I became a Christian at the age of eighteen The Holy Spirit filled me with the love of Christ for all people, the priceless peace of Christ, and God's own pleasure in righteousness. It was wonderful! Romans 14:17
It was a pleasure to walk in his commands and this was done out of love not compulsion. I didn't have to earn his love and salvation since I had already received it without any effort on my part other than asking him to be my Lord. As Jesus said ‘this is the work God requires, to believe in the one he has sent’ (Jesus).
I was a clean lamp from which the love of Christ was shining and people saw it! Jesus said ‘they will know you are my disciples by your love ‘.
Sadly, many in the body of Christ have fallen from this great height and don't even realize it. Somewhere along the way they were led into the political area and told to reclaim the godly heritage of this nation by voting in leaders who would legislate godly values thus returning this nation to God. In the course of doing this these members have lost God's love for the lost and began hating them instead. There is nothing wrong with voting for leaders that champion godly values but not at the expense of Christ's mission to a lost world. Your hatred is burning the priceless bridge of Christ's love!
We need to remember what the big picture is. It's about bringing Christ's love to his enemies, the same way it was delivered to us! Remember one must be born again to see the kingdom of heaven and until that point a person remains at enmity with God. The devil understands this and loves to distract us from this. Someone once said if the devil can't get you to do wrong, he'll get you to do right wrong!
It's not our task to enter Christ's rule on earth but to continue the work of his Father as long as daylight lasts which is the salvation of souls. We've got a 5th seal to fill so let's get to it and ‘think from what a height we have fallen and repent and do as we once did’.