This may hearken back to an earlier post I wrote called “Self Defense” or some such title. I hadn’t then thought this deeply upon the subject, but events of the current semester have caused the issue to resurface. Let me recap: Often, in the face of an attack upon ourselves, we as humans consider it right and good to defend our selves, our good name, our integrity. I asserted in the earlier post that perhaps this is not really an issue of self-defense as much as it is one of faith.
Here, I will be connecting the same principal to another type of situation. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do not have this issue neatly resolved in the resesses of my gray matter, I’m just mulling it over, and presenting it to you to do the same.
Have you ever been in a situation where God was mocked? A situation hostile to the Lord? I have. This semester in fact. My question is this–for all I can really do is pose a queston–Is this a situation similar to the one I outlined above? Are we “fighting for our RATS” rather than WAITING on the Lord and allowing HIM to guide us?
Let me give this question some context: Earlier this month, in regard to the battle over gay-marriage in California, a group of alternately oriented individuals attacked a church. They were “fighting for their rats” (yes, I do quote the Gettysburg movie here). However, Christians are doing the same thing, if not so violently. When you look around and see, in the name of evangelism, Christians requesting that others not take the Lord’s name in vain, Christians sending forwards suggesting that we, as the majority religion in the nation, should cause the others to “sit down and shut up”
WHAT ARE WE DOING? Are we showing the world CHrist’s love for them? WE SHOULD BE…BUT WE ARE NOT. In those types of situations all we are doing is FIGHTING FOR OUR RATS (RIGHTS)! Now, I don’t enjoy hearing my Savior’s name profaned, my spirit mourns when athiests and other “alternate” lifestyles insist on pressing their choices upon us all. But, really, what would Jesus do? He ATE among the sinners and the publicans! He didn’t go around DENOUNCING THEM, the only people he rebuked were the hypocrital Pharisees and their peers. He HEALED AND FORGAVE the sinners.
Anyway… just some thoughts.
Eraynay pros humeis (Peace to you–as near as I can get it from Greek to English phonetically)
Courtney
Wow, what an excellent post!