The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. – Gal 5:22-23
In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:
This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden… But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out… you know very well what I would see; brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds…
Yet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people… They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians…
What a compliment! A quiet and holy people
Quiet… Not obnoxious. Not boastful. Not demanding. Just quiet…
Holy… Set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome…
Maybe we could all take a lesson from third century Christians. Instead of standing up and demanding our ways be met, protesting every little thing we don’t like, maybe we should take a Christlike attitude towards politics and the like.
Instead of yelling at the lost, why don’t we calm down and show them how we were once found.
(HT The Inspirational Study Bible – Max Lucado)
Word up. Check out my Christian polictics blog on my sight. It runs in the same vein as this.
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