Earlier this week on my news feed a friend retweeted (chirp, chirp I don’t twitter) “In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.” Retweeted Kevin DeYoung (@RevKevDeYoung)
Isn’t that the truth (I warned you about the rant)! Our media is going on and on about deflated footballs from last year. What Tom Brady knew and what he didn’t know. How his image is tarnished etc. It is a football game after all. In the same breath we spend time (the most valuable resource) about one lion killed when over 800 are killed each year (half by Americans). Yet, not but a few words on the Planned Parenthood practice of selling tissue from dismembered babies until a new video comes out. Where is the outrage?
This summer we have heard and seen the clamor over officer involved shootings. Yet each night here in Savannah and in other cities I suspect, there is another shooting. Both parties are 14-25 in age yet the community fails to tell what it saw and heard. Earlier this summer a 15 year old was shot and killed during a robbery by another 15 year old and 13 year old. The accused murdering thieves got a cell phone and $10. There is going to be, if this continues, a missing generation. They will be incarcerated or buried. Either way absent from culture. Where is the outrage over this?
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled same sex marriage a constitutional right in all 50 states. The outrage raged on and on and continues to simmer almost at the boiling point heated by passionate high moral ground. Yet, the rate of heterosexual couples cohabitating (living together) without marriage continues to rise and there is no outrage, no high moral stance regarding the same sin as homosexual marriage namely fornication. I warned you of the rant. Where is the outrage over this?
As of today there are 18 candidates for the republican nomination for President. Eighteen, I would assume we all agree is too many. Consider the vast sums of money that will be spend on campaigns, hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions (yes with a B) all to become president of the United States with an annual salary of just over $400,000. What if that money went into the hands of people so outraged that they do something? How would that money change hunger in America? How could it eradicate sex-trafficking? How might it end substandard housing or families choosing between buying food or medication? Where is the outrage over this?
Christians have led the call of warning over many of these areas claiming outrage because of our faith. Yet we are guilty of being outraged but not doing anything about it. Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world James 1:27 HCSB. Do we love people enough to do something about the out-of-whack-priorities? To do something is to bring them to Jesus. The four friends of the paralytic (Mark 2) loved him enough to bring him to Jesus. Jesus is the one who changes worlds by changing persons and priorities. Christians our priorities are out of whack too. Where is the outrage over this?
Bro G
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