The time is now to stand up and be counted. No longer can we sit on the fence and be indecisive. Stand up for your family, Stand up for morality, Stand up for standards, stand up for light and knowledge, stand up for integrity, stand up for truth, Stand up for Love.
Too many are sitting on the fence and watch. It is time to get in the game. The Lord needs you! He needs you to help in this battle that he is waging against sin.
In today’s world there is no room for indifference, complacency, laziness, and whining. In fact the preceding is the exactly the things that we are fighting. These are stopping us from swinging an ever damaging blow.
Our world is quite literally building up walls that force us to conform to the influences of darkness. All around us there are barriers that must come down. They will not come down all at once. The walls will however fall little by little stone by stone. We must take tiny steps. These actions will be steps that will lead us to the tearing down of the walls of sin.
It starts from a very young age. We see it in our schools and in our neighborhoods. We see it come into our homes through different streams of media.
One day I was eating lunch with my daughter at her school. We sat down and began to eat. We were talking to other children at the tables. One of the boys was talking of a movie that he and his mother had watched the night before. He told (in detail) of how a man’s face was ripped off. The boy repeated language that was vile. He continued to tell about his exciting evening and the rest of the students were also engaged in the story. I looked at my daughter and she was making gagging reflex noises as he talked.
What if we could change the thinking of others? What if we could help others feel and recognize that the stories like the boy told at lunch were wrong? What if we took back our neighborhoods from all the violence? What if we could bring God back into the daily arena of public thought?
All of these are daunting to the any of us at a glance. I purpose that each one of these walls can be dismantled. Brick by brick layer by layer they will come down if we come together and work as one body. Acting as One in purpose.
The purpose that I speak of is taking back humanity. Our desire should ever be; to put into the minds and wills of the people, a desire to serve others. To know who their neighbors are and above that what needs might they have.
A few years ago, a school was having a food drive. The school had made a deal with the local pizza place to give a pizza party to the class that brought in the most canned goods. Two boys who really loved pizza set a goal for their class to get a pizza party before the end of the day.
They went home they raided their families pantry. One of the boys mothers asked the young men what they were doing. The boys told the parent that they needed canned goods to win the pizza party. They came in the next day with 65 cans of food each. The teacher aghast at the amounts the young men had brought in asked them where they had gotten that much food they simply replied mom’s cupboard. They then asked for their classmates to do the same thing. They came back the next morning again with much food to be donated.
The class won their pizza party.
It is simple acts of people stepping forward to show the way that cause a community to work together. Little acts, go along way. They bring people together. They show people that they can do something great if they are willing to work together.
The great prophet and leader Moses, stood up and lead by example. The Lord gave him a mouthpiece to help others to understand the will of the Lord. Aaron, was just that person to stand up and be that strength for Moses. Aaron was able through the use of his talents to gather and rally the Jewish people.
Each of us has been given talents. Talents, that when developed influence others for good. We are to use those talents to help and build others. Just think for a moment what we could do if we were to act as one and stand up.
There will always be pain and suffering during this life. Our challenge is to be there for those whose heads hang low and build up the walls of righteousness around them. These people will thank us and be prepared to help when others are in need.
1 comment:
It is interesting what parents allow their children to see in the media and cinema. It astounds me the language that they use. And to think, their parents at one point in time may have desired to keep those images and dialogue away from their children, but have changed since their infancy.
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