Saturday, May 9, 2020
Notice with all God has Given Us
How Much God asks:
Be Kind!
Love even your enemy!
Deuteronomy 2:7
Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness.
1 Corinthians 4:2
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they should be found trustworthy.
Words of Grace For Today
God has blessed us greatly. This wilderness that we are all going through called Covid 19 pandemic affects us all differently, but we humans are ALL in this together, like it or not!
God is with us!
And
We are stewards of so much. Will we be found trustworthy as stewards who share what is given into our charge as our Creator intended we would?
Like at no other time, the whole world needs us to be faithful, active and proactive!
CBC news reported yesterday that lawsuits and hate speech abound in response to Covid 19.
Lawsuits are explained that we humans lash out at others to blame them when we are hurt, to make someone else accountable.
Hate speech is horrendous.
Quoting from:
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the COVID-19 pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering” …. [It] is fast becoming a human rights crisis.”
Who are the targets of the hate speech?
Jews, Muslims, migrants, refugees, older persons, journalists, whistleblowers, health professional, aid workers and human rights defenders!
Guterres called on political leaders to show solidarity with all people and on educational institutions to focus on “digital literacy” at a time when “extremists are seeking to prey on captive and potentially despairing audiences.” He called on the media, especially social media, to “remove racist, misogynist and other harmful content,” on civil society to strengthen outreach to vulnerable people and on religious figures to serve as “models of mutual respect.”
“And I ask everyone, everywhere, to stand up against hate, treat each other with dignity and take every opportunity to spread kindness,” Guterres said.
There is not one person in Canada who cannot do something each day to stand up against hate, treat each other with dignity and take every opportunity to spread kindness!
I’m not one to give orders, but here is the one that counts the most:
Get to it!
Every morning remind ourselves, this is what the world needs most. God has given us abundantly, now use everything we are and have to end hate, treat everyone with dignity, and spread kindness.
That ain’t so hard.
… and …
That’s the hardness thing we will ever undertake.
Get to it!
Before it’s too late.