Children starving, old people hungry because they only had the money for meds, wives beaten, drugs ruining young adults and orphans enslaved for sexual gratification or worse.  Men and women struggling in marriages where both of them must work while their children are indoctrinated by those owing allegiance to the ideals of social justice.  Fathers, powerless to discipline their children for fear of losing them to the same government who requires him be accountable to their behavior.  Grandfathers wishing they had chosen otherwise as they watch young people ill equipped to protect the America they bought with their sweat and blood.

And you would blame God for this chaos, when He provided Eden and a sinless world?

This is madness.  These are the earmarks of a leader numb to the cries of his people.  These are not the outcomes attributed to God but to the enemy who rules in his stead for the time being.  The Lord rebuke him if he chooses.  And I would pray that God sends him to the Lake of Fire early if He so chooses but I know this is not God’s Will as the Bible says so. Every thing has its time.  Every season must come and go and this one we are in is awful.  We must be moved by something, for most of us just looking at the state of our world does the trick.  The tears roll, but what comes next infinitely matters.

Do you go to God in prayer for the innocent and dying?  Do you stand in the gap for those who are being abused by tyrannical relationships?  Do you ask God to provide you the strength to help the elderly, the orphaned and the widowed?  Are you fighting the enemy with prayer, fasting and the Word or is he unrestrained in your households and those of your family?  We are told by God to resist him and he will flee.  How are you resisting this travesty?  Or have you lain down your weaponry, given up hope and determined to get what you can from this marginal existence?

Father, I am helpless, powerless, broke, tired and ineffectual.  Please help me to look past these obvious excuses to my status as a joint inheritor or everything.  These two states of being are mutually exclusive.  How can I be powerless if my Father has all power and authority?  How can I be broke if my Father owns everything, all the Gold, Cattle and Countryside?  How can I be tired and ineffective if the Lord’s Joy sustains me indefinitely and His power allows me to do the impossible?  There is something awry.  That something is my choice, my will, my desire to drop the excuses and become the man for which provided me salvation.  What, you think he saved me just so I could sit around and be happy with a get out of hell free card?  Really?

We all know that is not the case.  We were all taught statements like, nothing comes for free and if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.  Is salvation free?  First of all it cost the life of the only perfect man ever.  Second it required God to humble Himself and come into the world as a man, be spit on, beaten, whipped, punished and abused, then hung on a cross to die, forsaken by His Father for our crimes.  Third it took the lives of countless innocents in the enemy’s quest to hurt our Lord by killing us.  And finally here is the greatest testimony of God’s greatness, our Salvation is a Free Gift.  Yes, there I said it, salvation is free to all who will accept it through repentance, belief and faith.  Oh, so you say it’s not free because you have to turn from your sin, believe in Jesus and the Work that He did on the Cross and accept the Holy Spirit by faith.  You think those things are worth keeping?  You think that you are getting the short side of that trade?  Really?

So you are moved to tears by the chaos in the world but you refuse to give up this world to change it?  Okay, sounds like you want this world and the pain within it so that you can get your groove on?  Oh, I get it too bad that there has to be orphans, sick people, drug addicts and sex slaves.  You’ll cry about it but you won’t do the one thing in your power to change any of it.  The pain must not be close enough to home.  Meaning your little sister didn’t get used as a sex slave and your Mother is in an old folks home so you are okay because it isn’t touching you personally.  I get it, you’ll shed the tear but that is all you will give to set them free.  Again with the Free.  Do you think it is a strange coincidence or just irony that Freedom starts with Free, especially when it cost everything to buy our freedom?

What moves you?  Does it move you far enough to get you off the couch and out of the house doing something about it or to the floor on your knees and face crying out to the Lord for intervention?  Please Lord Let me be Moved to Action especially when that action is Prayer.  In Jesus’ Name.