When people draw lines in the sand, they stop trying to improve, they stop achieving, they stop progressing, they stop moving forward, and they put lids on their talents and capabilities.
When people stop at the line in the sand, two groups will emerge:
One outcome will be lazy people. They will become parasites and mooch on others, which is the same as drones in the beehive.
Secondly, another group that will emerge will be people filled with their own pride, desiring to rule over others, to prevent others from crossing the line, or from getting over the wall, and to hold others captive.
People of these two groups are anchors in the sand, holding others back, and trying to convince others that they are better off where they are instead of advancing the lines.
When people draw lines in the sand, they become as flat tires in the trunks of cars: useless, dead, and their only future is the city dump at the end of town.
Around the world today, we see lazy people as we also see people consumed with pride.
But what about people of faith?
What about the people who want to step over the line and to explore the unknown, to see what is out there, and to take that mountain?
What about the people of history who explored the oceans and crossed continents to build better societies, better homes, and the people who have worked hard to create better opportunities for other people?
What about the people who dared to escape from the prisons of empires at the risk of losing their own lives?
What about the people who sacrificed their own lives so that others could be free?
Today, however, we see plenty of anchors in the sand: lazy people and people consumed with pride. These are the people who are getting the most attention, the most television coverage, and the front page of newspapers and magazines---while people of faith are treating as enemies in the camp, enemies of the state, and enemies of the whole world.
Because of these lazy and prideful people, the most endangered species on earth today is the human kind. More specifically, it is the people of faith kind. We are the hunted.
In truth, it is the anchors in the sand who are destroying the earth's environment. They are destroying the laws that we established to protect us from the lawless. They are destroying the constitutions that we wrote for freedom. They are destroying the economies of nations as well as the economic stability of the whole world. They are destroying families. They are destroying cities and nations. They are destroying civilization.
Anchors in the sand are deceivers. They are liars, robbers and thieves. They are tearing down instead of building up. Death and destruction is their vision for a better world. Their focus is on man instead of on God. And look what men are doing to us!
All of this evidence is in front of our eyes and we are watching the future unfold on television, in newspapers and magazines, and also on the internet.
Things that appear to be impossible are not impossible when we have our faith in God, for faith in God enables us to step over the lines in the sand. But without faith in God, we will become anchors in the sand, we will hate our neighbors as we hate ourselves, and we will die there with no hope for a better future, for we will become like those who hate God.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11: 1)
When people stop at the line in the sand, two groups will emerge:
One outcome will be lazy people. They will become parasites and mooch on others, which is the same as drones in the beehive.
Secondly, another group that will emerge will be people filled with their own pride, desiring to rule over others, to prevent others from crossing the line, or from getting over the wall, and to hold others captive.
People of these two groups are anchors in the sand, holding others back, and trying to convince others that they are better off where they are instead of advancing the lines.
When people draw lines in the sand, they become as flat tires in the trunks of cars: useless, dead, and their only future is the city dump at the end of town.
Around the world today, we see lazy people as we also see people consumed with pride.
But what about people of faith?
What about the people who want to step over the line and to explore the unknown, to see what is out there, and to take that mountain?
What about the people of history who explored the oceans and crossed continents to build better societies, better homes, and the people who have worked hard to create better opportunities for other people?
What about the people who dared to escape from the prisons of empires at the risk of losing their own lives?
What about the people who sacrificed their own lives so that others could be free?
Today, however, we see plenty of anchors in the sand: lazy people and people consumed with pride. These are the people who are getting the most attention, the most television coverage, and the front page of newspapers and magazines---while people of faith are treating as enemies in the camp, enemies of the state, and enemies of the whole world.
Because of these lazy and prideful people, the most endangered species on earth today is the human kind. More specifically, it is the people of faith kind. We are the hunted.
In truth, it is the anchors in the sand who are destroying the earth's environment. They are destroying the laws that we established to protect us from the lawless. They are destroying the constitutions that we wrote for freedom. They are destroying the economies of nations as well as the economic stability of the whole world. They are destroying families. They are destroying cities and nations. They are destroying civilization.
Anchors in the sand are deceivers. They are liars, robbers and thieves. They are tearing down instead of building up. Death and destruction is their vision for a better world. Their focus is on man instead of on God. And look what men are doing to us!
All of this evidence is in front of our eyes and we are watching the future unfold on television, in newspapers and magazines, and also on the internet.
Things that appear to be impossible are not impossible when we have our faith in God, for faith in God enables us to step over the lines in the sand. But without faith in God, we will become anchors in the sand, we will hate our neighbors as we hate ourselves, and we will die there with no hope for a better future, for we will become like those who hate God.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11: 1)
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