Good morning Jesus, speak to me this morning as I long to her and be filled with your words of life..
“Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, and he had an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth - to every nation, tribe, language, and people. He declared in a loud voice: “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!” (Revelation 14:6-7)
My heart is saddened and in mourning this morning. I saw on the news of the Amti- Semitic hate shooting at Bondi Beach and the shooting at Brown University. I ask myself the obvious questions: How and why could they do something like that?
They were influenced and discipled by evil in our culture and the world through peers, TV, the internet, social media videos on Tik Tok, violent games and other means. College campuses are becoming places that promote ideologies of violence and hate. Our youth’s moral and value of life are being formed, and they are being disciple 24/7 by the word around them. We as a followers of Jesus and members of His church are called to more than sitting in our living rooms shaking are heads and asking why, We are called to proclaim the gospel, to all the earth - “to every nation, tribe, language, and people,” and this includes those who live in our neighborhoods workplaces, colleges and our youth. if we do not share the message of the gospel of hope and love with them, then the only message they will hear will be of fear and hate. It we do not speak the truth of who their identity is in Christ they wi;; believe the lies told them by society. We can shake our heads and ask why, but none of us have clean hands. If you are not sharing the gospel with someone every day, you are surrendering and silencing the gospel, the “Good News” in a persons life them you are an accomplice to them hearing only the “Bad News” from the world. Our silence in sharing words of love leaves a vacuums to be filled with words of hate.
Dr. Martin Luther King wrote, “…Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation…”
My family, I pray today you will meditate on how none of us have clean hands and that these violent acts taking place in the absent presence of the church that is not sharing the gospel daily. I pray, especially during this season of announcement of the birth of Christ, the Holy Spirit will convict and motivate you to speak words of love and truth to those you come in contact with today and every day, in Jesus’ name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you my friends!
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