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The Value Of Your 2 Cents
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Our Lord desires for you and I to be good interpreters of the present time. Because the interpretation we give the present time has direct consequences for ourselves and those around us. I know that most people will not listen to our assessment of the news, but we should at least be able to share it.
Yet, even as Christians we outsource discernment to others: news reporters, politicians, law-enforcement officers, social media, and conspiracy theorists, they are the ones telling us what happened and why it happened and what we need to do about it. Trouble is, their assessment is often clouded by fear, prejudice, indifference, personal interest, or political agendas. Most of them certainly don’t have the discernment that comes from the Lord, from the very mind of Christ. What might it take for you and I to reclaim and accept our responsibility to discern and judge what is right?
Discerning the present time may just be some of the most important and life-giving work we can do for our country, for one another, and for our children. This is not someone else’s work to do. On one occasion Jesus would ask: “Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?” (Luke 12:57) No one else can do our work for us, and when we let them do it, we are doing our country a dis-service.
In today's PathLight we reminded of our responsibility to interpret the present time. Are you looking for the deeper problems and solutions? The world needs your interpretation, and they need to know how to properly respond—don’t push that responsibility off on someone else.
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