From Bad to Worse
Race in America… race in the world. What to do? I hate anarchy, but as far as protest, looting aside, the bridge occupations, “Black Lives Matter” events and street murals, and other protests, reflect a desperate need for change. We as a nation are fraught with racism and we as the human race are cursed with sinful flesh.
Christ will come back one day and all will be made right, but I’m beginning to think that He’ll use issues like this to prepare people for the New Heavens and New Earth. Salvation may be once and done, but most Christians know that the process of becoming ready for life in Heaven is a lifetime journey called sanctification.
I did not set out to write a theological treatise¹, but rather, I’m concerned about the fear, anger, violence and loss that our communities are experiencing in the throes of a climactic racial and sexual revolution.
As Europeans should and did not accept Marie Antoinette saying, “Let them eat cake”, of her starving country subjects, so we Americans must not accept certain individuals discriminating, abusing and sometimes killing our citizens.
Not all cops are bad, but we can look back to the terrible shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and note that as mass shootings have exponentiated over the years since that sad 1999 event, and now we hear of such tragedies often, all too often.
So with race based killings, the incidents are multiplying at an alarming and hideous rate, a rate that is causing appropriate uproar. After all, to remain indifferent at such things is to risk losing heart and humanity.
This all smacks of the end-times where the antichrist arrives and after a short and terrible “reign”, Christ comes back to vanquish evil forever. But does that free humanity from responsibility to act and work for good? By no means; we are responsible.
I do not claim to be free of sin or have all the answers, quite the opposite, sad to say, but I felt compelled to write this post in the hope that it would touch a chord with others who struggle with racism, either in their hearts, or in the hearts of others who oppress them.
May you find freedom to do right, and may those who would oppress you find the same freedom. I feel that while humans may be weak against their own sin nature, that God supplies need to overcome, and as the great Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King sang, “We shall overcome…”
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¹A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject. (Google)
