We the baffling people

It is not up to government to decide how to care for its people,
but the people to decide how we must care for ourselves.

It is not up to government to govern people by an elected moral code,
but the people to elect a goverment with the capacity to support our freedom to live by our own moral codes.

Government is not responsible to save us from ourselves,
Salvation is the Lord's alone. Government must never hinder our opportunity to embrace it.

Government is not responsible to cure all the ills of society,
but to be a silent partner in equipping each one of us to add our voice to the solution.

Government is only a scapegoat for those who choose not to look further than ourselves.
If government is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people, why are we-the-people so quick to offload our responsibilities , as if this relieves us in any way, onto our "government", which is essentially - ourselves?

We never fail to baffle me.