What if heaven had a device that measured the percentage of Holy Spirit work versus political discourse in the world?

When Jesus came down from the hill, large crowds followed him. 2 Then a man suffering from a dreaded skin disease came to him, knelt down before him, and said, “Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean.”[a]
3 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I do want to,” he answered. “Be clean!” At once the man was healed of his disease. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “Listen! Don't tell anyone, but go straight to the priest and let him examine you; then in order to prove to everyone that you are cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered.” Matthew 8

If heaven had a device that measured the amount of holy spirit work and the amount of political discourse in the world what would our world look like to God? What if God could see the  people with the strongest holy spirit filled faith and compared  that with the parts of the world that had too much political discourse?

For the longest time I often wonder if there is way too much political discourse in the world. This is easy to see with the 24 hour cable news channels competing with  all the other sources. As most probably know the news media is big business that strives to search for newer and bigger headlines to capture more advertising dollars.  They hire 'talking heads' who will put their own spin on the news or offer political opinions.  We listen to these pundits like they were ear candy so we can go into our various social circles and offer their opinions as our own.

There is so much political discourse that I fear it is drowning the one true  source for our contentment: the holy spirit. If God could look into a glow globe and see the parts of the world where the holy spirit is doing it's greatest work I fear it wouldn't be in the  bigger cities of the world, nor would it be in the civilize regions that have access to the 24 hour news networks.

As I reflected on the leper colony in the time of Jesus I thought  how similar this is to our modern day political world.  In the day of Christ it was extremely unpopular to just 'hang' with any one with that dreaded disease that many thought was the result of sin. Many were discouraged from going near the leper colony, or even associated with them. 

When Jesus came upon a man with leprosy he essentially broke the traditional mode of how we ought to respond to anyone who doesn't fit our world view.  As I read about this healing I started thinking of what if scenarios.  What if instead of listening to political pundits we retreated and prayed to the God of the universe for his understanding of these events? What if we spent time every morning meditating on God's word and asking God to revealed to us something to take us through the day?  What if we all prayed for God to fill our God shaped vacuum of our heart with God's love for the world and his people?

God doesn't want anyone to perish. He wants all to come to the cross and see  the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ as something for them.  The words from John 3:16 'for God so loved the world that he gave his own begotten that whoever believes in him shall not perish,but have eternal life'. 

God's word is life giving. God's words are life saving and God does his greatest work through people who constantly search after those words until their holy spirit is so sufficiently filled that others can see something different  about them  which  they do not see through those who listen to the political pundits and those who choose to be filled with the unwise wisdom of those talking heads.

As your holy spirit is filled with God's radiance God will be able to use you to impact the world with the greatest news ever told!