I have been grieved this week over the lack of love I have seen on social media. I have been grieved over the anger and lack of humanity. One post that I saw said, “You and your sister are morons #LoveWins”. I cried. Love hadn’t won. So I have been praying. I have been asking God what I should do. In light of the recent changes in our government’s stand on another sin issue, I have had to take some time to reflect and meditate.

Don’t get me wrong. I am sad that the government has given more freedom to sin, but this is not new. Unregenerate man usually picks pleasure and conformity over God’s moral standard. They are not part of His kingdom, why should they follow his rules? But I am really concerned over the lack of love and hatred that is being spewed. So what am I to do in light of this tension and upset?

I know that God has placed me here for a purpose. It is uncomfortable to live in a world that celebrates sin, but I must focus on God’s view and the reason he has me here, not on my comfort. I’m pretty sure I know what to do. I am to carry on the work of Jesus. “Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24, NIV)

So I must follow Jesus. Does that mean I should work at social change? Does it mean I should run for office? For me I don’t think so. I don’t think that work is political activism. I don’t ever remember Jesus working on government change. He was more concerned about individual lives changing.

I don’t think I am called to preach destruction and condemnation to those who are lost either. Those that have rejected light are condemned already. “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” (John 3:18–21, NIV)

What I am called to do is proclaim Jesus as the Savior of the World. I am called to let people know that real love exists. I am called to exhibit it. This love is not of human origin, it is greater and surpasses and the momentary pleasures that we enjoy in this life. It starts and ends with God, so it is not temporary. It is eternal love. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16–17, NIV)

This is my purpose. It is to proclaim the goodness of God. It is to share His love. My calling is to lead people to Jesus, the Savior of the world. I am to join with Jesus in calling people “out of darkness into His marvelous light”.

Will you join me? Let us who know Jesus proclaim the love of God to our lost world. We need to share about Jesus, the Savior of the world. We need to tell a lost and dying world about the free gift of salvation. “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:4–7, NIV)