Rearranging the Furniture

Fellow Labourers-

It should be now patently clear to us that we are in a world that's gone mad. A world where anything goes and hopelessness is setting in. This week (ending Nov.6) in the United States points to the fact that the only safe place is in the arms of Jesus. In Jacksonville a father shot his two children and then shot himself. In Texas a major opened fire on his own colleagues. In Orlando a former employee opened fire on his ex-coworkers, and the list could go on and on. This is the country that is held up before the world as the greatest democracy in the western world. And yet there seems to be an insatiable taste for blood. Why?

The world desperately needs a rearranging of the furniture. We do not need more peace keeping forces or larger police forces and armies. What we need is more justice. Justice denied anywhere is justice denied everywhere. Injustice screams at us from sunrise to sunset, and no amount of social reengineering will solve our problems. Justice can only come when Jesus is in control of the lives of men. It is time for the Church to get back to its roots. A root that teaches that "The just shall live by faith." We cannot now cower in the face of the enemy, and begin to retreat. Then forward still its Jehovah's will though the billows dash and spray. With a conquering tread we will push ahead; he'll roll the sea away.

Pax Vobiscum.

Robert A. Stewart