Many of our American Founders stated that the greatest enemy to our Constitutional Republic are those of “special interests”. https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/ap-gov/special-interests Special interests refer to groups of individuals or organizations that seek to influence government policy and decision-making to benefit their specific agenda. These groups often have a focused interest in particular issues, such as environmental protection, business interests, labor rights, or education reform, and they employ various strategies to sway lawmakers and public opinion. Understanding special interests is crucial because they play a significant role in shaping legislation and public policy, especially in the context of changing media landscapes that amplify their voices.

Knowing this charitably exchanges the year one of political sciences courses for first year students. This focus is the basis for all politics. We all must practice this discipline in all social interaction as everyone that we meet has a unique special perspective and seek the ends thereof. The church is not excluded from the “Worldly Competition” for assets in provision, protection and purpose. All believers must struggle through even their own special interests in competition for enduring character in service to the King of Kings. Our Will is the enemy, certain we will be tempted to pursue our own pride, sins of the eye and flesh and that is where the true battle lay, for Americans and Christians. Our failure to awaken to the nature of our conflict has relegated humanity to chasing its own tail and subscribing all efforts against God to principality and dominion when we ourselves are perhaps our worst enemy.

When we graduate to understanding and defining our own will as the beacon of serving “other gods” we may rest in the Word of God and stop resisting the miracles that God is doing within each of our hearts and minds. Realizing, defining, acknowledging and establishing boundaries to all the voices, as special interests within our own lives we are freed to establish/maintain boundaries of performance within the Will of God and frankly being Americans. Do we believe that it is a coincidence that the struggles of Biblical World View and American Civics are identical? That would be a preposterous assertion as the origin of our Sovereignty as Americans is God Almighty. Equally the voices of special interests, clearly defined in the Bible are always the competing interests and direction that lead believers astray from obedience to God. Not so coincidentally the only path to showing God we love Him.

What then must be done with the “Shiny Objects” of our own special expectations, planning and compelling allegiance if we are to achieve the pinnacle of God’s Purpose for each of us? Self-denial is impossible at times. It is empirically ironic to resist our own perceived needs, yet there are very few people who will contend that what we want is always the best thing for ourselves. Yet, many believers spend the bulk of precious time before God’s throne, begging for the desires and wants special to our own thinking and desire. That seems foolish and is in fact how the Bible codifies this idol/idle behavior. James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

In Conclusion, in order to establish command efficacy in American civics and Biblical compliance with the Will of God we must first identify and categorize the “Special Interests” seeking our attention and performance. We cannot perform God’s perfect will by ourselves clearly requiring the intervention of God’s Holy Spirit in that fulfillment. Therefore as the Bible identifies God’s Sheep know His Voice and won’t follow other voices. We must primarily identify and conditional our senses to recognize this stark allegiance and discipline. Failing to remain aware of competing interests we induce ourselves to vulnerability in disciplining our senses to filter out “Special Interests” when they compete with God’s commands. Therefore, as politically savvy Americans we must condition our perspective to reflect on the parallel compliance or resistance to those same self-serving voices and ideals.

We are Americans who follow the identical moral coding as the Judeo Christian origins of our faith that birthed this nation. We pray to God that His Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. It would be self-accepted foolishness then to establish practices that tolerate the competing “special interests” we invariably encounter. It is far past time for those who call themselves by His Name to assert: identity, clarity, discernment and perambulation consistent with Biblical/American principles of retarding special interests with deference to the Word of God and the Constitution of the United States of America. Our Founders understood and spoke urgently some 250 years ago regarding this necessity. For such a time as this we have been prepared. Will we remember the logical foundations of our Faith and our Civic Responsibility as Patriots or perhaps dedicate ourselves to perpetual slumber?