I understand the desire to think on good and lovely
things. “Whatever is of good report…
meditate on these things” (Philippians 4:8).
We also must face and fully acknowledge our personal and national sins,
exposing works of darkness among us (Ephesians 5:11).
People use Facebook for different reasons. Some to escape from life and get a
laugh. Others to keep up with
friends. Others like a dose of the
political. Social media lets us filter
out friends to only see what we want to see.
This is not healthy. Friends give
an honest rebuke sometimes. Or they just
bring up something you aren’t as prone to enjoy, but it’s something you need in
your life. Different members of the body
have different gifts, and we need to appreciate those with gifts we don’t have.
CS Lewis once said that when a people gets focused on
politics, that people is diseased, and that is certainly true in our time. The cure isn’t to escape – to swear off
politics, and only look at cats and dogs on Facebook. A grim obsession with politics won’t fix
things, either. But we are in a moment
when we have a real opportunity to expose the brutality of abortion and its
anti-midwife, Planned Parenthood. Attempting
that exposure will feel like we are fixated on dark, ugly negativism for a bit,
because we are trying to get the world to see it. So if you’re sick of the ugliness and
negativity, it’s fine to turn it off for a while when you get overwhelmed. But please, also do your part to show the
world the barbarity that we currently approve.
Eisenhower, after victory in Germany, made some of its
soldiers and citizens sit and watch videos of concentration camps, or even tour
them, so they would face what they had looked away from for so long.
It’s time to stop looking away.
It’s time to hold up the pictures.
It's time to show
the world what we do to children to defend “choice.”
Amen, Steve.
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