-C H Spurgeon
Heart heavy by the product of information falling on deaf ears of ignorance, I write this, knowing that on deaf ears it may fall again.
I have watched and read silently this week as many claiming-to-be followers of Christ made fools of themselves by ignorantly commenting and posting from one end of the spectrum or another about a belief shared by a multimillionaire. My grief is not at all with the statement from Phil Robertson. My only comment on that is if you do not want the opinion of a bible believing man, don't ask for it.
Rather, my heaviness comes from the obscene amount of support that one man has gotten over being suspended from a television show that, let's face it folks, he hates doing anyway. Why, my defenders of the faith, are we so passionate about defending a man who will pick up his shotgun and quietly retreat to his earthly paradise of duck hunting, when there are so many other defenseless souls that need your outcries so much more? Where are your posts and reposts about the sex trafficking that is happening, not only in foreign lands across the world, but on US SOIL? Where is your disgust that the majority of benefactors of this industry are American business men? Why are we not standing in the gap for the poor and hungry who will merely experience Wednesday, December 25, and not Christmas Day as the bulk of us will embrace it with cheer and gluttony? And where are the articles posted about abortion? Where are the voices to defend those lives that we're never given a chance to develop one? The hungry, the hurting, the forgotten? Do we not defend because they do not entertain? Where is the church when it matters?
I guarantee you that Phil Robertson is doing just fine whether you agree with his sentiments or not or whether you establish a Facebook group of supporters or protestors. Instead, I challenge you to use your social media footprint to defend someone who needs defending, not Phil Robertson and not the Bible. The Word of God has never needed defending, only sharing.
Let the Lion do its thing.
As for us, may we take to heart and action from Romans 12:9-21:
9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,[g] serve the Lord. 12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.[h] Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it[i] to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” 20 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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