A local Christian Bible bookstore, at 7200 South State Street, has a street ad proclaiming, "Chosen By God, Get Use to it." I’m not exactly quite sure what this message means or what it has to do with selling Bibles or spreading the good word, but it doesn’t remotely sound like anything Christ would have said. What happened to, "Blessed are the poor . . . , the meek . . ., the merciful . . . , [and] the peacemakers . . . ?"
Many of the self-proclaimed, "God’s Chosen," rant on national television, with hate pulsing from their tumid temples, that God is inflicting Katrinas on the Nation’s wicked. To them I would ask, when the lowly Man of Grief, the Lamb of God roamed the quiet fields of Israel, did he damn the humble sinners or the "chosen" in their lofty seats of power?
And if his most harsh words were reserved for the latter, will God more severely condemn the misdeeds of the downtrodden and misguided or the many Christians in positions of influence who arrogantly assert that they are "God’s chosen" and who stand with their boots upon the necks of the meek beseeching, "get use to it?"
May I suggest that a more compelling pitch to sell Bibles would be, "Come, let us wash your weary feet, and help lighten your heavy burdens."
Loren M. Lambert
March 31, 2008 ©
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