I was driving to work this morning when I pulled up behind a
car with numerous bumper stickers on the back. Usually it's an amusing sit at
the stoplight trying to read all of these but this morning I was more disturbed
at the anger the owner of the car in front of me must have been feeling. Let's just say the decal and what it
expressed was aimed at protecting a woman's right to contraceptives and/or
abortions.
I felt immediately sad that this person first of all felt so
angry they would display this decal on their car and secondly wondered what
made them feel that way?
The anger and tension in our society keeps growing and
getting worse. It doesn't seem to matter that we live in the most prosperous
and free country in the world. Our sense of righteousness seems to know no
bounds so we even wear our anger on our vehicles. Is that what you want people to see you as
when I sit behind you? An angry person?
The devil is winning his war against humans by dividing us
up into compartments, having us take sides and get into boxes we cannot get out
of. We cannot help each other inside a
box, we cannot have discussions when we stand on this side of a fence or the
other, we cannot make peace without shaking hands.
Let's shake hands, not fists. Let's agree we ALL have a
personal reason for the choices we make and with some compassion hear each other
out. Jesus didn't condemn people for
making mistakes or even turning and walking away from him. He reached out with love, and when sinners
didn't take his hand he let them walk away, not yelling at them, but still
loving them. We need to do the same. Stop condemning each other, pray for one
another. Reach out in compassion, not
anger. Let there BE peace on earth and
it should begin with me and it should begin with you. Declaring our stand or our side on the back
of a car is not the way to get people to heaven. Don't let the devil win.
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