Too busy with the moment.

Esther 9:13-32

I’m going to let you have a small glance into my soul, my mind, will, and emotions.  Now let us be clear, the mind is not the brain, the brain is an organ and an exceptional one, but it is a piece of meat like the liver and heart, but our bodies do not work without any of the three.

I’ve always said if I were a black man living in the United States of America Martin Luther King would be one of my heroes.  But in that I’m not a black person, I can only be thankful that God used him in such a movement to expose the evil of not allowing a man’s color to control where he rides on a bus.

Should there be an MLK day to remember his life and what God did through his life, the answer is yes, have a day of remembering and celebration and being thankful for what God has done?  Then why is it wrong for a white person from the south to honor a man like Robert E. Lee?  I researched this man, and it is clear he was a man of deep moral character, a leader, who walked before both God and man with integrity and had a love for his home state of Virginia.  He was a West Point Man, a general of the Southern troops and after the war, gave allegiance to the USA and became president of Washington College; in that position he supported reconciliation between North and South.  Lee accepted "the extinction of slavery."  He is a man I’ve always admired!

But unlike the Jewish people, we as a people and culture do not reflect on our history; we are too busy with the moment.  I believe this generation is like the man talked about in James 1:8, “He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”  A culture controlled by stuff and not relationships, where more is known about some low moral movie star or football player than how their local government runs, much less state or federal. 

A people who have no understanding of history will always repeat it, never learning, easily led to do wrong.  That’s why the Jewish leader; Mordecai and Queen Esther called for this day of rejoicing a day of remembering what God had done for them.  “They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.” (Esther 9:22b)

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice