It seems that when we decide to act, is at the moment when we
see that the consequence of ignored past decisions has gone just too far.
Currently, a lot of my friends, and I included, are supporting a protest that
sprung in Colombia, in support of the movement occurring in the country against the inhumane
treatment the farmers are receiving from the government. Due to the Tratado de
Libre Comercio, (Free Trade Agreement) the country signed with the United
States, being a farmer has become the least desired life someone would like to
have. Their fields have been taken away from them, they have been forced to
plant government approved seeds, aka Monsanto's, which are distinctively
costly, and they have been stripped from any kind of human right they had with beatings, humiliations, starvation, and all kind of verbal and physical abuse.
Meanwhile, in the United States, people are in shock, including Christians, at
the obscene presentation Miley Cyrus gave at the MTV video music awards last week.
Here
is where people are wrong when they think God is not relevant in our society.
All these things, both our farmers and this singer acts, are the result of the unscrupulous
people who, at some point in their lives, imposed values totally against what
is true, just and fair, while almost the majority of the rest of citizens stood
silent. Some people might say that these are relative terms; meaning that what is
true, just and fair for one person, might not be the same for another. However,
I dare to say that these terms are absolutes in their essence. The God who
created this world has put the same law in every conscience, and it is us who
choose to abide by it, or ignore it. Let me make it a little clearer: killing,
lying, stealing, or any kind of injustice, is the same for every culture and
for every conscience. If there is any difference, it lies in the will of the
person who takes the decision of whether to break, or abide by these values.
Therefore, it is this act of the will of some that has our
society at the edge of a cliff where morality, as we have known it, is threaten
to no longer exist.
I don't think Miley was forced to do what she did, or the
government of Colombia: they decided. However, this is the result of a decadent society; of a
domino effect that started long ago. I understand this article might sound a
bit hopeless and discouraging, but its purpose is the contrary. We can still be
a change, and we can still fulfill the purpose for which we are living in this
time: to be salt and light, to defend the cause of the poor, to instruct our
children in the ways of life, and to show love as the strength of the few. I am
confident that when a believer is constant into inquiring God regarding everything
that happens in the world, the divine answer will push him to do something:
whether to pray, speak, or act.
Verses to ponder on:
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid". Matthew 5:13-14
" Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
