Time to pick sides

I've been thinking about something a lot lately. Then lo and behold, I put in the movie "Remember The Titans" and it slaps me in the face again. If you've never seen the movie, then let me set up the scene for you. The Titans are in the middle of the High School football season. Coach Yost (the former Head coach now defensive coordinator) and Coach Tyrell (former assistant coach now special teams coach) are sitting in a diner. They have been demoted from their previous positions on the team. I wont get into why, but the whole story centers around racial tensions in Northern Virginia in 1971. Coach Yost is trying to make the best of a bad situation but his friend, Coach Tyrell will having none of it. He doesn't like working for a black head coach. During the "diner scene" Coach Tyrell finds out that Coach Yost is letting his daughter spend the night with the daughter of the head coach, Coach Boone. He is very agitated. During his discourse, which is aimed directly at Coach Yost, Coach Tyrell says, "sooner or later a mans gotta pick sides."

How true, how true, Coach Tyrell. I couldn't have said it any better myself. Its getting harder and harder to see the difference between the true Christians and the world of which we are supposed to be set apart. I am not the judge so don't take this as a judgemental statement. I am the one writing this so I'm hearing this for the second time. I have already heard the Lord say this to me. It is time for us as Christians to decide whose side we are on. There is no more room for playing on both sides of the fence. You remember the verse in Joshua (24:15) "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Look around people! Do you honestly think that this world is going to go on forever? How in the world can some people who claim to love Christ still be so enthralled with the world and what it has to offer. I want to distance myself as far from the world as I can. If the Lord should come right now as I'm writing, I don't want there to be any question whose side I am on. Just as sure as we tell our children not to play with matches, or tell them not to run with scissors, or tell them to slow down when driving in the rain, the Lord is telling us "stop playing with the world. Don't run so close to the other side of the fence." Only you and God know what you need to get rid of or start doing. I am in the middle of some "house cleaning" myself, but if He is pointing something out, you better address it. There isn't much time left. "Get your house in order."

In love:
LW