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There is a call for justice these days – social media, all media, are aflame with calls for change – there are demonstrations, even rioting. And the voices in social media cry out “LISTEN to our pain!” There are also those with an agenda who are using this pain to suppress any voice not aligned with – their agenda. They don’t hesitate to use poisoned arrows to destroy lives. Such are the days we live in, my friend!
There have been calls for societal change in America before. My wife and I lived through the 1950’s. And 60’s. And 70’s. And 80’s. Through marches, demonstrations, riots, suppression, assassinations of a president, assassination of his killer – and his brother. Vietnam, Vietnam Summer, Watergate, a presidential shooting — the list goes on. My precious wife was involved in demonstrations – traveling to DC from Pittsburgh in a Volkswagen Microbus (painted of course) to march on the Pentagon – the tear gas is still a vivid memory.
People seeking lasting change. But: until a man’s heart is changed, there will not be lasting change. Not for that man. And if that man is in power, then while there may be ‘accommodations’ to the voices of the demonstrators – nice words – there will not be lasting change. Only God can change the heart of unregenerate human beings.
Remember the gentle people with flowers in their hair in San Francisco of the 60’s. And the Jesus People of that same era? And how lawless people out for their own ends took things over, adding violence?
Remember the Russian Revolution – 1917 – were you alive back then? Or read about it in history books? I’m not sure if anyone demonstrating today has a clue. Anyhow, there was a revolutionary movement intending to overthrow the rule of the czars. The czars had rules for centuries. So what did the revolutionary leaders do? Using JEALOUSY and ENVY, works of the flesh, they stirred up the common people. Pointing to the great chasm of separation. The classes. Justice and equality for all, they promised. But at the root was jealousy and envy.
In Feb 1917 the Czarist gov’t was overthrown. Now there were be equality for everyone. Right? That’s what the peasants were told. But by October of the same year, the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, took CONTROL – as planned. They had stirred up the commoners in order that they could gain power. Once in power, they suppressed and oppressed the poor even more so than the czars. Stalin killed millions – of Russians!
I’m concerned today, for there are many deceivers out there – encouraging lawlessness so THEY can rule. The people in the streets, may have noble ends in mind, but they are being played. Their noble intentions are not those of the leaders. It’s deja vue all over again.
You and I can be instruments of God’s healing – listen to what the Spirit is saying to you, then ACT on those words. You will help others — COME ALIVE!
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Only God can open the eyes of the passionate but uninformed revolutionaries- the “useful idiots” as the communist dictators used to call them.
The answer in Sunday school was always,”Jesus!” — He remains the ultimate, never-failing answer today – thanks for commenting!