Get Angry Already!

I was cringing as she said the word over and over again to describe conservative America: “Bigoted…racist…” My blood began to rise gradually in temperature as she attempted to convey HER definition of bigotry as people who deny women “reproductive rights” (the right to abort any fetus at anytime), among other anti-biblical, anti-morality examples. It made me angry. I wanted to stand up in my living room and shout at the TV at the top of my lungs, “MURDER IS NOT A RIGHT!” It made me angry…and it should make you angry, too!

“Be angry, and sin not.” (Ephesians 4:26) So get angry already! Has the American culture cat got Christianity’s tongue when it comes to standing up for issues? Has spiritual pacifism drowned our God-given obligation to “be ready to give a answer [defense]” of what the Bible says (I Peter 3:15)? We’re told to be “ready in season and out of season to reprove, rebuke and exhort…” (II Timothy 4:2). How can we give a defense when our voice is silent?

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke). Too many Christians and too many churches do nothing. We’ve become spectators, sitting on the pews, watching the Devil play his game of influence over the world. Is this you? Do people know where you stand on the issues of life? Do you know how to give a biblical answer? Because in the fight we are to fight against evil there is no middle ground! Jesus said, “He that is not with Me is against Me, and he that gathers not with Me scatters abroad.” (Matthew 12:30) It’s time to stand up!