The world has achieved brillance without wisdom, power without conscience. - General Omar Bradley
“You leave the commandment of God”, Jesus once told the scribes and Pharisees, “and hold fast the tradition of men” (Mark 7.8), and it is one of the needs of the day that more men learn to say what Gideon once said. He had saved them from the hosts of the Midian, and the men of Israel wanted him to be their king. But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.” (Judges 8.23)
There is no salvation in the world short of men who are willing to be broken in the search for that salvation. There is no hope for the world except in men who are ready to forget their “rights”, forget their standing in the eyes of their fellows, and forget the burdens they carry in proportion to those of other men. Somewhere, sometime, someone has to step out from the crowd, thrust himself into the swiftly whirling wheel of man’s evil and halt the whirling swiftness. Somewhere, sometime, someone has to take seriously the ancient Christian claim that man’s loyalty to God is the greatest of his loyalties.
We may not like it. We may not even think it just or fair. But we cannot evade the fact the grows clearer and clearer. America will not be saved until China is saved. Britain will not be secure until Russia is secure. and while the restless hordes of India hunger either for bread or for righteousness, the world itself will not be full. Salvation is never alone: we are admitted to the throne of grace only when we bring our brother with us.
-The Believer’s Unbelief, Roy Pearson
