Give Good A Chance

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Listen up "good men"!!

I was talking with a girl today in one of my (more stressful) classes. It's what us well-on-our-way-to-graduation-juniors call crunch time! Scholarship deadlines are everywhere, EVERY class has a project or two underway, and it's "Stress Level Midnight!" Needless to say, everyone is ready for summer, but we can't check out just yet. ANYWAY. 

She began ranting about the evils in the world and how some people just can't be born with a conscience. She mentioned Hitler, then somehow we got to Westboro Baptist Church members. (yikes!) Then came the universal question that I think many people have found themselves asking:

"Does [insert name here] have a conscience?" "Does [insert name here] know what "good" looks like?"
"Are people born good or evil?"

John 1:6-9

"God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe him. John himself wasn't the light, he was simply a witness to tell about the light. The One who is the true Light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world."

This verse lets me know that everyone, EVERYONE has a little bit of good/light in them. Even the people I can't stand or that I think are plain hateful, they have good in them. This verse tells me that at the beginning of time (or our existence) God gave every man a piece of himself to provide for them a conscience. How comforting. Moral of the verse? Give people a chance. They WILL surprise you. Sometimes the surprise is a lesson you were needing to learn. Randy Pausch (google him!) used to say that no matter how much evil a person may show you, if you give them an honest chance, the good will come out of them somewhere. 

What about the Hitlers and the sects of the world? It just goes to show how far we have fallen from Grace and in a sense, lost their moral compasses. 

Spring Break 2011!!

So before we let the evils of the world triumph, examine where the hearts of "good men" dwell. Are we giving people, (God's people) a fair chance? NO ONE is too evil for the gospel to change their lives. When we stop believing in that, we stop living. God created them too. Hatred has no place in a Christian's heart. The ground is level at the foot of the cross. 

Give people a chance, they might surprise you.  

Redeemed, JAS.

P.S. Africa details SOON to come! Thanks for the prayers and support thus far!