In London a young soldier was run over by a car while walking down a very busy street. The driver of the car then got out and started hacking the injured young man to death with a large knife. Not one person on the busy street tried to save the young soldier. Some stood by eating, singing, running busily to their next appointment–maybe even an appointment to help someone…..some just looked on, frozen in fear. And after the soldier was dead, a brave young woman came over and prayed over his body, even though the killer stood with a knife over it.
That’s awful, we say…but aren’t we doing the same thing? We are so busy doing what we want to do, going where we want to go, deciding not to see someone who needs rescue….deciding to protect our own lives, even if it kills them. We do so many, ‘good’ things while people are being killed. Corrie Ten Boom once said that she thought there were “too many pies in church and too many demons”…because the disciples of Jesus Christ were more concerned about having a bake sale than a conference on prayer and casting out demons! We have camping trips, we play games, have dinners and sing songs of praise, while people are being hacked to death before our very eyes by addiction, sexual sin, anger and loneliness. Oh, we will pray over their dead bodies, but we don’t seem willing to step in and save them, do we? The biggest and best ‘program’ we have is the gospel, and the best tools we have are ourselves and our time.
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