Opinion: Where do your loyalties lie?
By Easton Martin | November 18, 2025
There is a large divide in the Republican Party right now. On one side you have President Trump and those loyal to him. On the other, you have figures like Massie and MTG. I would caution anyone about where their loyalties lie. Do not wed yourself to MAGA or to President Trump beyond what is merited. Do not wed yourself to politicians who make a living by positioning themselves against President Trump. The point is the same on both sides. They are fallen humans. They cannot save us.
There are also those who will blame Israel for anything and everything. In their view there is a Jew behind every door. Chemtrails? Jews. A political assassination? Jews. Shadowbanned on X? Probably the Mossad. Yet on the opposite extreme you will find people with an undying loyalty to the modern state of Israel, people who seem unable to distinguish the nation founded in 1948 from the Israel of Scripture. In their eyes this nation can do no wrong. They may not say it aloud, but some appear more devoted to Israel than to their own country.
So where should our loyalties lie? And why are we so eager to champion a political movement and plant our flag there? If you woke up tomorrow and learned beyond a shadow of a doubt that your chosen political savior was not who you thought he was, would you be okay? Would your world collapse? If you discovered that Israel was not responsible for all the world’s troubles, or that Jews were not behind the things you accused them of, what then? If you learned that Donald Trump was on the Epstein list and guilty of unspeakable things, would your worldview shatter?
The point is simple. If your political views sit at the center of your identity, disappointment is guaranteed. Maybe not today, but eventually. There will come a day when only one man’s life and one man’s words will matter if you staked everything on him. Only one person cannot and will not fail you. That person is Jesus of Nazareth, a real man who lived, died, and rose again. The only man who suffered for you without selfish motives, without guilt of his own, whose suffering has eternal weight because he was not just a man but God in human flesh. Politics may shape this life for a moment, but Christ alone can set you free from the bondage of slavery to mere humans.
Our politics are important. How we fight for justice, for the persecuted, the unborn, all these things matter. But do not think for a second that just because you have the right political causes that your heart is in the right place, and your loyalties the same. Are we truly blind enough to think the enemy of our souls cares if we support one politician over another? How many opportunities and traps lie ensnared for us on either side of the political aisle? The answer is not to avoid politics, it is to make it of secondary, even tertiary importance. What I mean by that is simply that our allegiance to Christ ought to far outweigh our allegiance to any person or politician.
