The borders of European nations and the United States have been flooded with refugees from neighboring countries. Some refugees are fleeing corrupt governments allowing widespread violence and oppression. Many have witnessed destruction of homes, villages and brutal rape/murder of family and friends.
Others are not really refugees but opportunists illegally entering nations with the sole intent of self-benefit. Human and drug trafficking is a lucrative business in the United States and other nations.
Lawless governments often close eyes to theft, rape, violence and oppression of the weak. If you’ve been brought up in this environment, this is how you might expect to survive and get ahead in life.
There’s a lot of speculation going on concerning the United States border problem. I believe there are many innocents looking for safety as well as many who are not so innocent looking for opportunity to prey on our nation’s citizens.
Healthy leadership in any family or organization will strive to protect their own members and as able, will help to meet the needs of the less fortunate.
I don’t believe our government alone can solve the border problem. Government leaders around the world continue to struggle with the reality of precious humans stuck in refugee camps with no quick solutions.
The solutions could be found in the most valuable resource each nation possesses. A great place to start is God fearing citizens calling out to God for help. Compassionate citizens, motivated to action through God’s direction, could bring relief and order to individual lives, families, communities and yes, even nations.
The preamble to the Constitution of the United States starts out, “We the People”. Most signers of the Constitution were God fearing men who understood it was necessary to establish a system of justice and defense in order to have general welfare, liberty and unity. They also understood it was the people of the nation who must demonstrate these qualities to make it work.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (Preamble to the United States Constitution)
It was common people without racial, spiritual and cultural bias who rescued Jews from Nazi concentration camps during WWII and black slaves from slavery in the United States. They risked and sometimes sacrificed their own lives to save others from oppression and death.
Will our posterity enjoy the blessings of liberty if we remain silent and sedentary? We still enjoy the riches and freedoms as citizens of the United States of America but for how long? We must value life in order to enjoy domestic tranquility.
Moses was enjoying his family, occupation and peaceful existence when God requested Moses to help rescue Israel from Egyptian oppression. He argued with God but in the end helped liberate a whole nation from slavery.
God is the same yesterday, today and in the future. This same God of Moses is asking each one of us to involve ourselves in the care and concern for other’s welfare.
Are you asking God to intervene in the lives of those greatly suffering or are you complaining about government? If you are brave enough to ask God for an assignment, are you carrying it out?
But Moses pleaded with the LORD, “O Lord, I’m just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I’m not now, even after you have spoken to me. I’m clumsy with words.” “Who makes mouths?” the LORD asked him. “Who makes people so they can speak or not speak, hear or not hear, see or not see? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go, and do as I have told you. I will help you speak well, and I will tell you what to say.” (NLT: Exodus 4: 10 – 12)