Greetings Dear Reader,
The shades of grey in the world are infinite. As the standards in our culture for morality
and social justice are in flux it becomes difficult to always know what to do
in a circumstance. For the Christ follower
there are standards where there is no grey, or shadow, or doubt.
The problem is that we tend to proceed from positions other
than bedrock. There are things that I
must do as a Christ follower that are unquestionable with integrity. The foundation of all that I must do must be
my love for God. Second, from that love
must proceed a love for all humans.
Social issues become much less grey in light of this. How we treat others tells the world the
extent of our love. It reveals if we
have allowed the black and white of love they neighbor, the stranger, or thy
enemy to become muddied by circumstance, selfishness, or politics.
We make political issues out of things that are moral imperatives. We demand that those who do not follow Christ
to act as Christ followers instead of sacrificing all in the effort to show
true selfless love. Instead we protest
and argue. Instead we allow children to
starve over what might happen. We allow
the murder of the unborn instead of making it easy to avoid it.
We judge and condemn those who do not live as we think they
should. We shun and denounce instead of
loving and serving. We embrace evil acts
that violate love and justice and call them good. We cannot hope to show the world Christ unless
we lay aside all forms of hatred and to whatever it takes to love others as Christ
loves them.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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