Everyone has heard of “heads or tails”.....you know, where you flip a coin & call “heads or tails” to decide who is on your team or who goes first in a game ... that works well for games or similar situations in life.
However, “heads or tails” seems to be the ‘name of the game’ when it comes to morality...Another term for this is SELECTIVE MORALITY. It’s done nothing but divide the United States of America. The murders, the abuse, the discrimination, the racial/cultural divide, the pragmatic way of life.....The ’I do life the way I want and you do life the way you want’ mentality is rampant. Righteous indignation should be felt and maintained when it comes to the recent atrocities in the United States. Atrocities that involve the senseless murder of a man who decided to go for a run in Georgia & the senseless murder of a man in Minnesota by an officer. Hate crimes. Racial prejudices. Every single bit of it is senseless!! These two men who were created in the image of God, imago Deo, had their lives cut short by individuals who cared nothing for the lives they were snuffing out. From a personal standpoint, I pray that the murderers that took the lives of Ahmaud Arbery & George Floyd are served the maximum sentences possible these hellacious crimes so deserve. There’s nothing wrong with wanting & even demanding justice. The God I serve is a God of justice. #AhmaudArbery #GeorgeFloyd In honour of these men’s lives and the lives of every other murdered American, let me pose a few questions...... The more I’ve watched the media stories, read the social media outcries, and heard people I know get angry about such crimes, the more I’ve wondered ... where are the crowds when it comes to the lives snuffed out senselessly EVERY SINGLE DAY across America? Where are the crowds for the senseless shootings that trace the interstate route I take to see my father? If I were murdered on my way to see my father or on my way home, would someone be outraged enough to stand up for my life? To organize a nationwide protest? Would I be blamed for being in a “bad part of town” or “in the wrong place at the wrong time”? Would anyone, outside of my family and inner circle, know or even care? Where are the crowds when the officers are shot/shot at? Why not protest this crime? I can tell you that although the officer-involved shooting in my small Mississippi town had local media coverage there were NO protests on behalf of local law enforcement. There was NO outcry against the crime that took place that day! Where are the media stories, social media outcries, protests, and righteous indignation and outrage against the abortion across our land.....when the lives of MILLIONS of innocent lives are snuffed out every single day in our nation?? Why do we not protest at state capitol buildings for the elderly? For the homeless? Why do we not get indignant about the medical neglect, abuse, and malpractice that is rampant across our nation in various doctor offices, hospitals, nursing homes, “care” homes?? Do we REALLY expect anything different from individuals in our nation when we have gravitated towards a morality that says “one life matters but another doesn’t matter”? What should we expect when we idolize individualism, disregard the reality of absolute truth, and disdain the principles set forth in Scripture? In the middle of COVID19, I have heard several pastors (& lay people) quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 as saying: “... if My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” The problem with quoting this verse is multi-faceted ... not the least of which is that this isn’t what the verse says!! 2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “...if My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” No one reads a few verses down where the LORD says: “But if you turn aside and forsake My statutes and My commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you up from My land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore He has. Brought all this disaster on them. (2 Chronicles 7:19-22)” I’m NOT saying that God’s orchestrated the murders of these two innocent men or that He is orchestrating the crimes that plague our nation. What I am saying is that we should expect NOTHING ELSE when we’ve abandoned the God of the Bible by seeking to be autonomous, spitting on authority (local, state, federal, and Heaven), and by embracing an ideology that says one race/culture is better than the next. REPENTANCE is the key to revival across America. It’s the key to the healing of our land. It’s the key to the healing of our world. What will you choose? What will I choose? I leave you with the words of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, taken from John 8:31-32, 36 & the words of John the Apostle, taken from 1 John 1:5-10. “So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free...So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.’” “This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” Soli Deo Gloria! A Wandering Pilgrim
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