Life is Precious

I am sitting and pondering life, how precious a gift that it is.  Yet so often we see and hear about people throwing lives away in an instant.  Bombings, shootings, abortions, wars the horror of daily happenings in the world today and yet we can become de-sensitized.  

Every life should be treated with value and respect.  Not because of some law or humanistic perspective.  But we should seek to protect life because life is a gift from God.  Even when someone does such horrible things to destroy other lives we must weigh very carefully if we are to take their life away.  The destruction of a life is a very serious thing.

Yet I sometimes find myself feeling as though there are too many lives being taken without any justice being dished out.  Justice is not vengeance it is actually how we attempt to love the rest of the population by protecting them.  I believe that men especially were created with a purpose to protect those who are most vulnerable.  Part of that protection is the serving of justice.

I want to call on Christian men everywhere to be those who will not stand by and allow these horrors to continue.  WE need to get involved.  If you have been a witness to a crime, you need to report it.  If you see a life being endangered then you need to attempt to save it.  If you need to jump on a gunman or grab a bomb and run away from a crowd, then do it.  Christian men know where they will be for eternity, many others around them may not be ready to face God, we are ready to meet our Lord.

I do not advocate a politically motivated Church movement but a gospel oriented one instead.  Yet I do believe that each of us has a responsibility to be active in making a change.  However you need to do that as a an individual as long as it is within the laws we are under and not against the Bible, then please say your piece and make a difference.  If we are horrified by a bombing or a shooting, why are we so silent about the thousands of children slaughtered daily around the world by abortions of convenience.  Life is a gift from God and it is precious.  Taking a vulnerable and defenseless life in a pre-meditated way is considered murder.  

We need justice to be enacted  to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Men let us be who we were created to be.  Men who love and follow God.  Men who love and care for their families.  Men who speak Truth and proclaim the Gospel.  Men who stand up for Justice and protect the oppressed and the vulnerable.  Men who are warriors at heart.  Men who refuse to live in fear of people or this world but do have a healthy fear of God.

Pastor Bruce