Fighting over LAST place

      In week 9 of the 2019 NFL season, the NY Jets and the Miami Dolphins went to battle.   The Dolphins won the game with a score of 26-18.   The reason this game got little attention from the media was because both teams came into this game with a record 1 win and 7 losses. In a sense, both teams were fighting to not be in last place.  While at the end of the game one team was in last place, the other team could only claim to be in NEXT-to-last place.  Both teams were essentially mathematically eliminated from any Super Bowl or Playoff hopes for that season.  I seriously doubt either team was chiding the other at the end of the game with touts of "YOUR IN LAST PLACE!!" as their situation wasn't much better.   Nor do I think the players would have enjoyed watching a group of fans in the stands fighting with each other over the result of the game either. 

    In the long view, politics in our world is much like game between two last place teams.   In the end, God will bring an end to all political systems as they are not needed.    They have no future.  Yet we are like the fans in the stands fighting over our respective teams.  When seen from the long view it is quite ridiculous. 

    I believe this is why St. Paul doesn't mention Nero or the Roman Senate or issues with Roman Law and his predicament in jail.  Paul writes in Romans 8:18 

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

   For us, much our present sufferings is watching our once great country fall into hatred, division and basic lawlessness.   We must be like Paul and take to "long view" to keep our perspective.    Capitalism/Socialism, Left/Right, Democrat/Republican, White/Black, Male/Female will all be gone and relegated to LAST PLACE.  If that is the case, should we place such importance on these things as we live out our lives?