Last night we heard a wonderful message from Rev. Floyd Wheeler on all the noise going on in our world. There is noise coming from everywhere, y’all. The far right, the far left and then those in the middle sound like little church mice (no pun intended) with tiny squeaks expecting to drown out the idiotic nonsense we see before us as we turn on the news, scroll social media or talk to someone in the grocery checkout line. As he was preaching, I kept posing the question to myself…am I doing my part? Am I being more than “noise”? Listen, as a believer I know that in the middle of all this chaos, God is making a symphony. I can hear the tuning of heavenly trumpets and harp strings playing in the distance, but amidst all this noise, where is the church?
Rev. Wheeler made a comment last night that the church has allowed the “world to wag them back and forth”. No truer statement, friends. I pictured this little dog with his tail in the air, nose down wagging his tail. As Christians (little Christs), we have forgotten how to wag our own tail! We have allowed everything around us to sway us from the right to the left instead of putting our nose down into the Word of God and allow the Holy Spirit to use our hands, feet, minds, talents and abilities to make a difference in this world.
Will the tail-wagging that comes from an obedient spirit to God Almighty be popular? Probably not. The church (the body of believers), must rise up and not allowed this world to wag our tails! We are in this world, but not of it. It is up to us, friends.
Now, I know that my words will not bring about much change, but the word of God has the power to change hearts and lives. You keep on hating your neighbor…
keep on being prejudice…
keep on hurting someone because they don’t look like you…
Keep on demeaning and degrading folks with sharp words because they think differently than you…
Here’s what The Word says:
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;”
(Acts 17:26-27)
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
(Acts 17:30-31)
I’m headed out for the day…and I think I will let the Lord be the one who wags me where I need to go…not the noise around me. How about you?
