Lions 'o Love (the carnivorous kind)

Those scattered few that read this may be under the impression that I blame atheists and agnostics for the rapid decline of the world and its vast stages.

While they have done their share of the damage, it really devolves on Christians to be salt and light; we bear the greater responsibility.  Yet it increasingly seems that Christians would rather be proud of ourselves for the few good works that we do, rather than to increase our reliance not on our own poorly chosen thoughts, plans, and ethics; but on God And Christ And Holy Spirit.

I am always disturbed at the saying, "YOU CAN HAVE AS MUCH OF GOD AS YOU WANT; IN FACT YOU ALREADY HAVE AS MUCH OF GOD AS YOU WANT."

We, meantime, concentrate on those good works such as will earn us praise from the world.  A "silent witness," as some say.  But we are called upon to do good works and to proclaim truth, as incompatible as that seems to McWorld. Loveless Truth is actually an oxymoron to God.  "Loveless fundamentalism" as Frances Schaeffer coined the term, is the product of mans' errant thought patterns and is not of God much less Christ Jesus.

God is love; but not all that calls itself love is God.  If truth is not part and parcel of caritas, then I am indeed a clanging gongster and a tinkling cymbalist.

"Love of the worldly variety is both truthless and toothless--a very noisy lion who loves only his own "pride."

And even what the world thinks it has is so transient and wind-blown that it truly is not worth the candle to cling to it--and people don't--their love objects and idols are changed daily or hourly.

But where then is the salt? The light?  Largely it has moved overseas, which is a subject that is too sadly profound for me to tackle on a Monday morning.  But I will only say that in certain people, especially those who are aware of their own foibles and inadequacy, Christ is alive and well and "moving on."  A remnant, if you will, who still fully believe in and rely upon All Three, in the very face of the fast, and furious, and deadly (for its unwitting promoters that is) opposition to God, His people, but in truth, to its own existence and claims.

But I would hesitate greatly to put myself, as I am now, into the above category.  Too much whiny child left...