If you’re a Christian, then there are some things that you just accept as the truth. And if something is accepted as the truth, it only follows that it is true all the time, making it an “absolute truth”.
We believe God’s word to be the absolute truth; we believe the gospel message of Jesus to be the absolute truth.
Now, if we accept that the word of God, the Bible, is the absolute truth, then we must also accept that there are things that are always right, and things that are always wrong. These always rights and always wrongs don’t leave room for riding the fence. There is no middle ground.
Two issues that Christians believe to be always wrong (an absolute truth) is abortion and same-sex marriage. There are many others but these two are always topics of discussion in today’s media.
If we as Christians know in our hearts that these issues are always wrong, then why are we so quiet about them? Why aren’t we exercising our free speech rights and speaking out against them? Why aren’t we going to our elected officials, or electing those that are like-minded with us. Liberals and atheists have no problem speaking their opinions. Loudly, at that.
Simply put, we’re afraid. Afraid we’ll stand out. Afraid of ridicule. Afraid of losing friends, or even our jobs. We’re afraid of being charged with a “hate crime” (a very real possibility) and being arrested. So we stay quiet, under the radar. “Someone else will speak up, I can’t do it.” We even take the stance that the issue is wrong for me, but if someone doesn’t believe like I do, then its okay if they do it (abort a child, marry the same gender). That kind of contradicts absolute truth, doesn’t it? May God forgive us when we get to that point.
In the Old Testament of the Bible there was a Jewish woman, Esther, who became a queen in the Persian court. Because she was in a position to speak to the king, she was asked to speak to him to prevent thousands of Jews from being slaughtered, because of a decree that the king had issued (he didn’t know that Esther was also a Jew).
When she was asked to speak to the king to prevent this tragedy (something that I think we could all agree would be an “always wrong”), she responded like we do today. “I can’t do that. If I approach the king without invitation, he might kill me.” (Paraphrased). Her own personal safety, the risks she faced for herself, outweighed that fact that thousands of her own people were going to be killed.
She finally realized that what she was doing was wrong, and she did approach the king and thereby saved thousands of lives. Her attitude upon approaching the king was “if I perish, I perish.”
What does this have to do with today’s issues? What if I/we put aside all of our fears and personal concerns and spoke up against wrong? How many babies might be saved if I spoke up? How many people might turn to God if I spoke up?
To put it on a more personal level, how many babies have died because I haven’t spoken out against something I believe to be absolutely, always wrong?
We don’t have to be quiet. If this makes me stand out, lose friends, jobs, get arrested, it would all pale in comparison to thousands of babies dying because I didn’t speak up.
If I perish, I perish.
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Good stuff, brother!
ReplyDeleteJer 1:14-19 ESV Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land. (15) For behold, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the LORD, and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah. (16) And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands. (17) But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. (18) And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. (19) They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you."
Luk 12:4-5 ESV "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. (5) But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Pro 28:1 ESV The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.