I’m sorry…but injustice makes me angry
I don’t usually apologize for that- and I am not actually trying to with this post. I just have to explain to some of you more gentle Christians- and that is said with no trace of sarcasm or ill intent. I love gentle people and wish I was more that way myself.. but I always have had this response to injustice that makes me rise up on the inside with anger and with fierceness. It is my strength and my weakness.
When I read the posts on the Korean hostages, our brethren in Christ, and became convicted of my own lethargy…after all, it is par for the course in these Muslim nations to take mercy workers and try to hold the world hostage through them….. Anyway, I finally woke up to the fact that we ought to pray like the early church prayed. We have the communications, we can rally believers all over the world, and if we pray with the fervency of our hearts, who knows what God in heaven may do? Are they called to martyrdom? then let us accompany it with our love and prayers, let us see them home with all the agape of our hearts and spirits.
I know that if I go to serve Christ in any capacity that puts me in danger, I would want the assurance of knowing that my soul was covered in the prayers of faithful saints. that would be a comfort and confidence. How can we apathetically allow ourselves weariness in uncaring neglect of the distress that is brought to our attention in cases such as these? How should we watch it unfold and not cry out? Not shout out with anger that we are not party to the Islamic fear festival?
When I read of the intentional targeting of women, especially those who are still just girls, for the horrific crimes that are happening – and not just in Sweden and Norway… in Australia, in the Balkans, in Sudan… it is horrific, horrific. Don’t you find it so? Doesn’t it appall you to read the <em>excuses</em> that the perpetrators of these crimes make? When you draw back the curtain of your ignorance and look at the diatribe of their Imams and history of treatment of women, are you not called to speak? Perhaps you pray, and that is the better part of it, but some of us must speak. We must. And I hope you will take that to prayer, I hope it will light a fire under your prayers to make them burn with urgency and with beseeching of a merciful heavenly Father.
And so I – who am prone to rise up in umbrage or have it burn in my bones, have to say something. I have to speak. I cannot remain silent.
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Your call to prayer is wonderful. Thank you for the wake up call
“I always have had this response to injustice that makes me rise up on the inside with anger and with fierceness. It is my strength and my weakness. ”
As a person with a very different set of strengths and weaknesses, let me say that I need people like you. We don’t need to be just like each other, but we most definitely do need each other. Thanks for your words here and your calls to action and prayer throughout your website.