“I don’t want to get involved”
How often do we sit back and watch as someone is slandered, gossiped about, or maligned?
Be it on social media, on the job, in the church, or in everyday conversations it happens far too often.
We sit back not wanting to “get involved” even when we know this behavior is in direct rebellion to The Word of God.
We choose to allow this because we don’t want to become the next victim.
We want to protect our reputation…yet Jesus made Himself a man of “no reputation”.
We allow this to happen to people we call brothers, sisters, and friends.
John 15:13,14 – Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends.
We act cowardly to protect ourselves.
However, the Lord said, “Count it all joy when you are persecuted for my namesake.”
When we look to scripture, we see this very thing at Stephen’s stoning.
It wasn’t the killers who took off their cloaks and laid them at Saul’s feet.
It was the witnesses.
It was those who OBSERVED the stoning and yet did NOTHING.
They took off their cloaks (the proper translation would be mantle – would could go much deeper into this spiritually) because they didn’t want to get blood on their clothing….or their hands.
This made them equally as guilty.
If you can’t stand for a friend, you aren’t a friend.
You aren’t a brother.
You aren’t a sister.
You are simply an observer of the blood bath.
A spectator who did nothing.
Spiritual food for thought.
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