By Larry Craig

Years ago, it was commonly asked, What would Jesus do? There were even bracelets with four little cubes on them with the letters “WWJD” (What Would Jesus Do?)

The Church in America is divided over the fact that we have millions of people walking into our country looking for a better life. Does this mean that our government should just take care of them?

They are not legal immigrants whom we have vetted and whom we have some idea how they will assimilate into our country. Most do not speak our language.

Our government is $31 trillion in debt. There are millions more refugees around the world and billions of people less well off than any American.

If you are a Christian, how much debt are you going into in order to feed, clothe, and care for needy people?

Jesus did mention a few times about people selling their possessions and giving to the poor. And the early Church did that for a while. But the Bible also frowns upon being in debt.

But actually the bigger problem is that we have no idea who is coming into our country. We have apprehended known terrorists.

Did Jesus mean that we should open our country up to anybody in the world who can get here and we will take care of them?

The fact is that the border situation is entirely out of control. People can be bringing in deadly transmittable diseases. There could be enemy agents seeking to wreak terror and havoc throughout our country.

With all the government benefits that we are providing for them, any poor person can come here and be better off than they were at home, and they wouldn’t even have to work for it.

The job of our elected leaders is to take care of the American people above those of other countries. Like your family takes care of your own children before you take care of the other kids on the block. That doesn’t mean that you hate all the other kids. You just hope your neighbors are taking care of their own kids.

The role of our government is, among other things:

1) To form a more perfect Union. We are more divided than at any time in our history, and the government is responsible for that.

2) To ensure domestic tranquility. Our government is fomenting hate and division as it tries to indoctrinate our children to despise our country and by constantly focusing on race and all the bad things in our past so that we lose sight of all that is good in our country.

3) To promote the general welfare. This doesn’t mean giving people money; it means promoting policies that create jobs and help the people prosper, like not spending our public money irresponsibly.

Our government is putting the needs and wants of the citizens of other countries over that of its own. Our refugee program has gone far beyond people fleeing mortal danger; it extends now to pretty much anybody wanting a better life. And our government provides any person coming here with much better living conditions than if they had stayed in their own country, so two million people have come this year alone.

In the old days, people came here for the freedom and opportunities. Now they come because we will take care of them.

The American people are the most generous people in the world. We just don’t like our government borrowing money it won’t pay back, so we are now paying a trillion dollars a year just in interest.

We don’t like our government not thinking about the safety of our country by just letting the border stand wide open. Everybody has doors on their houses. With locks. Many have fences around their property. Not only are we letting in whoever wants to come in, but we will put them up in nice hotels at other people’s expense. The government has no money but what it takes from other people. That is not compassion. That is irresponsible, reckless spending.

Compassion is when you give to others out of your own possessions and money. It is not compassion to take somebody else’s credit cards and dole it out so lavishly that you are drawing more crowds who want the same things.