Christian’s Gone Mute: An Internet Epidemic

Where are they?  I scan the internet for hours. Researching for a blog post….

But I do not find them.

Squeaky Wheels only.  Sharing their opinions….while all the Christian’s have gone silent.

MIA.  In other words….Missing In Action.

Shuffling in my seat.  Discontent fills the room.  Each site that I click on.  Has radical views….

While the Christian….no….the Biblical view….Suffocates from the world’s pushing and prodding and ridicule.  No hope of coming up for air.

And I get that we are His mouthpieces.  And that we are to be kind.  And loving.  And slow to offend and speak.

But yet, when it came to Jesus life and mission and ministry….My understanding was that Christians are to be light-bearers of Truth.  

Am I wrong? Please tell me.

And that fear of man shouldn’t shrink us in a corner. Offering blind folds to real problems.  Muting us. Intimidating us.  Scaring us into submission….to the world.

Isn’t that what Jesus died for?

Truth?  Or….

• Did He die that lies might spread and we not stop them? 
• Or sins might flare & truth not quench them? 
• Or that pain may prevail and us not offer…the balm of Gilead….as medicine to hurting souls?

 Where was Jesus when the world around Him was slowly dwindling?

• In a synagogue resting?  
• Hiding His eyes from pain….or witnessing?  
• Out in the world speaking.…the truth of His Word, the Light of His Life, the Goodness of His ways?  Unapologetically.  

And I have seen….far too many times….

• The enemy trying to lull us asleep.  Like the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane.  
• The sin of apathy.  Like Adam.  Who said nothing.  When Eve was sinning.  (Taking the fruit from the forbidden tree.)

And do the enemies schemes change?  I mean….really?

Why have we become like them….

• The Sleeping? 
• The Silent one’s letting the world slowly consume….what is forbidden?  

While the internet and the world’s atmosphere fills slowly with lies and sins and a pleading….for us to jump into the world. Yet, Christians sit back.  And say nothing. 

Is it because it’s easier to….

• Close our eyes?
• Sit in our pews?
• Walk on eggshells in this painfully broken world?

….Instead of opening up our mouths and speaking boldly Christian views.  No…not our Christian views….but Christ’s view.  The truth.  In love.

And the problem I see with this, “Speak the truth in love thing”?  Isn’t the love….or lack of it.  It isn’t the truth….because we know it.  It’s the speaking part.  And the “fear of man” that keeps us from preaching….and pointing….and professing….

The way.  His way.  The hope that the world keeps looking for.  Instead of sitting.  Sleeping.  Paralyzed in fear. Afraid to offend.  Just wanting to look like good Christians.  (Yes, I am so guilty of this too) 

Unruffled.  Unsqueezed.  Unpressed by the pressing needs suffocating those around us.  Those most vulnerable.

But yet, Jesus confronted.  He dealt with the sin and brought healing through His ministry….

Where is our ministry? Where is the healing that comes from His living?  Our living?  Living out a bold gospel on the fringe of a world that is not quite so apologetic?

Could it be we need Jesus to spit on and touch our mute tongues?  Or put His fingers in our ears so we can hear….

The collapse of the world that is going on…..all around us.

Where is our mat of complacency we sit on?  Could we find it, so our friends can lift us down.  Into the roof of the world and the crowds. Don’t we simply need Jesus to heal us?  Our paralyzed state…..

So that we can go into the world and be more than His hands and feet…..

But His mouth….that speaks….the most powerful, life changing, unaltering truth that will ever be found.

In hopes that people can be free……Instead of drowning in their sin of complacency.   

Like Adam.  Our forefather…..

And me.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke

 

 

(Linking with W.L.W., Good Morning Girls, Grace Alone)