the Eleven O Clock Prayer

  The Eleven o clock prayer

     Jesus said,

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets" Matthew 7:12.

This is one of the cornerstones of the Christian faith. Treating others the way you want to be treated. That being said I leave this story with you to think about. Its called the eleven o clock prayer.

“It's eleven o clock. Inside the court house a judge is about to make his ruling. A community, a nation, waits. 

Will the new law be legal? 

Outside the court house men and women with placards chant. 

On one side of the street stand a group of gay men and women. All in favour of the new law.

On the other side of the street separated by a line of police stand radical evangelicals, denouncing the new law.

One man among them screams angrily . "HOMOSEXUALS ARE GOING TO HELL!!!"

Approached by the media he says it again, "homosexuals are going to Hell." 

From my office window I watch asking myself the question, ‘is this man an Christian?"

Wasn't it Christ who told us not only to love our neighbour but our enemy also?

Wasn't it Christ who told us not to judge, lest we be judged likewise?

Wasn’t it Christ who said, "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets" 

Wasn't it Christ who said go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation?

Is this man showing love?

Is this man judging another? 

Would this man appreciate being told he’s going to Hell?

Is he going to Hell? 

Can this man be effective in reaching the whole world for Christ, of which a percentage are homosexual?

Is this man even a Christian?

A question keeps rolling through my mind for which I know the answer, "Can we truly know what is in someone else's head?

Do we really know why a person is like they are?"

For a moment I stare down at the crowd. All the time asking myself who is on the way to Hell this day?

Turning away from my window I kneel down and pray, "Lord guide me this day. Let me make the right decision, the wise decision, on this law. Let me do to others as I would have others do to me.”

Please think about it.