This Week # 29 (3-21-04)
Expedient Change
Now you know I am not going to mention any names, but I am amazed at how
some folks change their mind (political pundits call it waffle) on issues
depending on what is expedient or politically correct. Some politicians’
just change parties when it appears that they might have lost some support
among their constituents. Some preachers and Churches change what they
proclaim when there is an alteration in the climate or socio-economic
strata of their congregation. People often shift their thinking (read,
change their minds) when they are confronted with compelling bias on the
part of others.
For example, you remember when polite conversation had “unmentionables”,
and there were certain things that you just did not talk about in “mixed”
company. (Sometimes I long for those days) Then we were led to believe
that “mature” people with “enlightened” minds and “sophisticated”
intellectualism could say anything. It became important to tolerate those
who were exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and free
thinking and free-wheeling abandon to base things.
Following free speech and thought came action. People began to do things
in public that ought be kept in private or not done at all. Media exposure
and support moved our society toward acceptance of the ugly and vile, and
ultimately toward a way of thinking that encompasses the suggestion that
there is no God, and if there is, nothing we do is a violation of His
design and purpose.
Good men do little or nothing and evil triumphs. Believers choose to live
without witness to the Truth, and our families, our Churches, our society
and our Nation teeters on the precipice of destruction from gangrenous
evil.
Sometimes I think the passage beginning in 1 Corinthians 6:9 was written
for our day and age. I know it is a reality in our society, but it can
never be a reality in the Church of God. We must expect and demand more
from our leaders. We must expect and demand that the Church be pure. We
must expect and demand that we as individuals recognize that we are the
Temple of God. Period, paragraph!
© Weaver 2004
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