True Evangelicals

True Evangelicals

               Those who can—do. Those who can’t—criticize. Israel wandered forty years in the wilderness waiting for God to give them a second chance at their promised land. During all that time their clothes never wore out; neither did their shoes. Six days a week they could step out the tent door and pick up bread from heaven. Water sprang from a rock for them to drink and quail walked right up and nearly threw themselves into the pot. Maintaining a nation on the move is no easy task. Moving that same nation, intact, across the desert is impossible. Nevertheless, Moses with God’s intervention did it.

               Sure, Moses is a hero now. But, in his day, there was not a sandal print in Sinai that wasn’t accompanied by a complaint. Everybody, even Moses’ brother, knew how to do it better, faster, and with less effort. The sad part is such behavior is human nature. Man is an unhappy creature. Moreover, he is evangelical in his misery forever sharing the message of his poor condition.

               The good news is that there are those like Moses, Joshua and Caleb who remain doers in the midst of their detractors. “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”