“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”
-Matt. 5:13

The world is watching us.

We may not be aware of it, but the people of the world are watching us.

Watching us. Studying us. Checking to see if we are real.

Trying to determine if we really believe what we say we believe.

Looking to see if we are who we say we are.

This has been clearly evident during the earthquake crisis in Haiti and culture’s response to Pat Robertson’s comments about Haitian’s “pact with the Devil”.

The Minnesota Star Tribune published a letter to Robertson from “the Devil.”

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show literally reads from the bible to illustrate the God of Compassion as evidenced in the scriptures contrasted with Pat Robertson’s response.

But this really isn’t about Pat Robertson.

This is about us.

We presently exist in a time of great trial, great difficulty, great testing, and great intensity. Tragedies fill the airwaves and the internet, television and print media. Whether economic, relational, medical, environmental, we are facing things that we have never faced before.

Even though that is in the news, those realities and details aren’t the biggest story. What has the potential to be the biggest story is how the people of God will react and respond in this season of challenge, as Allan Greenspan entitled his latest book, we are in an ‘Age of Turbulence’.

In this ‘Age of Turbulence’ the biggest question is, how are the people of God going to respond? Are we going to lament, complain, point fingers, get critical, get nasty, and get caught up in the spirit of the age?

Or are we going to pray and seek God, asking Him for strength and for grace when everything screams the opposite. Can we serve hurting people the way Jesus would, no matter what? Can we show the world that we love Jesus more than politics, more than our nation, more than our stuff? And because we love Jesus so much, and because His love is now inside of us…we love THEM so much?

Can we do that?

Can we really do that?

Because the world is watching us.

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