Finding the Word

There is a wonderful event that happens during Josiah's reign that needs to happen again today.  The Temple is in disrepair and has not been used properly for a long time.  Josiah is led by God to get it in order and while cleaning it up, they FIND the book of the law.  That implies that they have not had it all this time.  That explains a lot. 
2 Kings 22.13- “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
Once they find it, they celebrate it, they worship together, and they live by it.

American Christians need such a cleaning.  We have made our struggle be one where the left is against the right, the red is against the blue, and, many times, the Christian is against the world.  Now, the first response most Christians would give is "No, the world is against us."  Yes, that may be so, but we are not to be against the world...at least, not the people that make it up.   Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities of the air that we cannot see, but we can definitely sense and feel...that is, if we are in the Book. 

This struggle that Christians have today to separate the sin from the sinner is mighty hard. When you multiply that by the fact that we are all sinners, it is like we have to battle to know how to respond to the difficulty.  That is, unless we follow the full counsel of Scripture, not picking particular verses to take potshots at folks about, and, instead, stand for what is right and to love and have a burden for those who do not stand for what is right.

I appreciate the support the Christian community gave to a corporation that stood up for what is right without taking 'potshots' at anyone.  A lot of other people have said some dumb things through this, but Dan Cathy did not.  I appreciate that.  However, please know, that standing in a Chick-Fil-A in the beaming heat for a $3 sandwich will not change the world.  What will change the world is lovingly leading folks to Christ.  We can only do that properly when we get our own temple out of disrepair, blow the dust off the Word, and read it and apply it to our lives.