Well, technically there’s not any defense of offense when Jesus said to turn the other cheek, right? But then of course there was the time that He said of the religious leaders
Matthew 23:33 KJVS
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
In that same passage He says of them:
Matthew 23:27-28 KJVS
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. [28] Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
So perhaps Jesus did get a little snippy with some folks that were being mean to His people.
This matter of discussion came up when some community members called me out for being ungodly by a meme I posted on my personal Facebook Account which they automatically assumed was about a certain person in our community, even though I mentioned nothing about anything or anyone when I posted the meme. It was simply a video clip from the Wizard of Oz when the good witch said that the bad witch was dead. And for the record, nobody died. You probably just lost a little respect, or a whole lot of respect for the Jesus Chick. And that’s okay. But before you get too offended by my behavior, let me explain my stance, which still may find me in the woodshed of God.
I sat in a meeting for the Ridgeview News and waited for the end of an executive session for the school board where two students were having reviews of an expulsion hearing for their behavior. I did not know either student at the time, so I bore no favoritism to either one, but I’m not sure that was the case on the inside of the board room. It is unfortunate that although it was a closed session, I could hear much of the conversation.
When the first student went, I heard laughter and the child and parent exited the room with faces of satisfaction. Then the second child goes in, a student again that I did not know, but I could tell he hadn’t had the easiest of life. So my heart, which is so very tender to young people, listened as he and his grandparent told me his story before they went in. When he got into the room I heard yelling. I heard one person in the administration rake him across the coals as if the crime had just been committed and he was an heinous infidel that had destroyed his chance at prison parole. Then I heard a higher person in the administration rake him across the coals again and prod him with a hot poker (metaphorically speaking of course) until I was ready to knock the door down and defend this kid myself. That person was demeaning, and let that child know just who she was and what authority she had.
A person from a child advocate group had attended the meeting with this young person for fear that they wouldn’t get a fair shake. Well guess what, they didn’t. And nobody defended them. And yes sir the flesh rose up in me and I was angry at the administrative people who thought they had the right to treat this child in such a manner.
Now, I’m not fool enough to think that this kid was without reproach. But I’ll just say that the first child who went in, may have been of a little higher social class than the second. I’ll also say that I was later told the crimes of both, and the one who went in first had a very serious offense.
So today I used this platform for which the Lord has given me to defend myself for a bad attitude toward a person. Am I erring on the side of right… I don’t know. But I do know that I will forever be an advocate of an underdog, meaning a person who has the cards stacked against them. I’ll do that because I have an Advocate in the Father.
I was accused of throwing stones. Which wasn’t true. I did not call the person, nor the sin out. The person for which everyone assumed my meme was about, happen to announce her retirement that day. I was gleefully happy that no child would ever have to deal with that person again.
I told my “anti-fan” club that I’d post my position on the Jesus Chick Blog. Thus the reason I’m somewhat airing my dirty laundry here.
I’m weary on a couple of fronts in my life, so now was not a good time for me to come under attack, or go on the attack.
I’ve been told that Christians are suppose suppose to turn the other cheek, stay out of politics, read your bible, go to church, do what you’re told and just wait until Jesus returns. But for Pete’s sake don’t get involved and make a scene because you’ll bring shame upon the church and upon the name of Christ. Those same advisors sit in the pew on Sunday, gossip on Monday, do not serve others, judge their brothers, and then call out me because I dared to involve myself with the people God called me to serve.
I was told I shouldn’t call myself the Jesus Chick because I’m not acting like Him. And yet, Jesus walked into the church, turned over a table where the money changers were robbing the people and ran them out with a whip. He said in Mark 9:42 KJV:
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Do I think Jesus would have posted that meme? I don’t think Jesus would be on Facebook. Nor do I think Jesus would be sitting in the church house listening to unbiblical preachers, or not even go to church because He’s “too busy,” He’d likely do a little more than nothing Monday through Saturday in the name of Christ, I don’t think He’d just sit and listen to people in and out of the church mock His Father and sit idly by as someone mistreats His children.
I’m done with this for today… tomorrow I want to refocus on Jesus. Focus on the ministry that God called me to do which is to minister to the people and shine the light on Jesus!
God bless ya! I covet your prayers for my ministry and for