I'd like for you to consider something today, girls. I have a question for you: are you playing in the shadows?
Strange question, right? It is prompted by something I read in a Sunday school lesson. Remember the soldiers standing around the foot of the cross when Christ was crucified? The Roman soldiers were cold, unfeeling men who could literally take a man's life and then have lunch a few minutes later. They were callous and cruel. The day Jesus was crucified, these soldiers stood around mocking Jesus. They platted a crown of thorns and forced it into the Savior's scalp. They put on Him a purple robe and laughed and sneered as they mocked His royalty. Spitting on him, they did everything within their power to humiliate and shame a man that they'd likely never met before. And, as the precious, humble King of kings hung, beaten and bleeding, they laughed and gambled for his clothes. They were playing in the shadows, girls. In dark obscurity, they ignored the pleas of a broken man to play their games.
Some of us are playing in the shadows, too. While the world is crying for hope, in the shadow of our steeple, we ignore the Scriptural mandate to be different--to be concerned for the souls of men.
I've played in the shadows many times, girls. Content in my own little world, I ignore the helpless, hopeless cries of those without Christ.
Are you playing the shadows?
Scripture Reading for the Day:
Proverbs 21
Matthew 6
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