As we enter into the summer months in Michigan, we love to fill up our schedule with outdoor activities as we soak up the summer sun. If your days are like mine, I can come to the end of the day and realize that I did not take any time to spend with God in His Word. There can be a variety of reasons why we don’t spend time in God’s Word, but I think one of the reasons we don’t spend time in God’s Word is because we have a low view of Scripture. We don’t approach the Scriptures with awe and wonder. We don’t approach the Bible as something that is living and active.
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“Throughout redemptive history, God’s people have gathered to worship him in all kinds of situations—many of them less than ideal. They worshipped together as slaves in Egypt and exiles in Babylon, as wanderers in the wilderness and as objects of Roman persecution. The church in a pandemic joins their faithful company. We may be six feet apart, but we are still the church.”
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Maybe the reason racism is still rampant in white culture is less about the history of slavery in our country and more about the complete failure of our culture to teach a right and contrite confession of racism and partiality.
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Ahmaud Arbery
George Floyd
You have to be hiding in a cave if you don’t know these names. These two black men, one in Georgia and the other in Minnesota, were murdered. They lost their lives. Gone, in a moment. They were not tried for some heinous crime and given the death penalty. One was shot while out on a jog. The other one was suffocated under the knee of a policeman. Tragic, senseless loss of life. Each of these incidents has caused public outrage. Facebook, Twitter, and every news site is filled with the story and responses to the story. My heart is broken over this loss of life and the evils of the systemic racism in our country that is exposed when these stories go public.
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This week I was saddened to hear the news that Ravi Zacharias had died. His writing and speaking have had a huge impact on my faith since I came to faith in Christ in 1994. So, over the next few weeks, on “Consider This,” I want you to honor his influence on the lives of so many people by considering some of the things he has written.
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I have been thinking through this entire article, but there is one quote that I have been carefully considering from Jonathan Edwards that he wrote 300 years ago:
“The real strength of the good soldier of Jesus Christ is simply the steadfast maintenance of a holy calmness . . . sustained amidst all the storms, injuries, wrong behavior, and unexpected acts and events in this evil and unreasonable world. The Scripture seems to intimate that true fortitude consists chiefly of this: ‘He that is slow to anger, is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit, than he that takes a city’ (Prov. 16:32).”
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