Parable of the minivan...

Who are you?

Picture a city street on a hot summer day.  The pavement is scorching hot, traffic is heavy.  Suddenly you hear tires screeching and people screaming.  From the sounds and panic you witness you can only assume there’s been an accident.  It happened up ahead of you and you did not witness exactly what took place.  You rush to the scene.  As you arrive you witness a group of bystanders on the sidewalk.  You assume it is safe to stand in this crowd to gather information about the scene in front of you.  What you see is a sight to behold...  A minivan with a family of four is overturned in the road.  You see people gathered around the vehicle… they appear to be trying to lift it… Their faces are strained from the effort. 

“What’s going on?” you question those standing nearby.  From all the voices sharing information at once you gather that a speeding car ran the red light and struck the minivan so hard it flipped and now rests there in the road.

Still confused you ask another question.  “Why are those people in the road trying to lift the van?”  More than one person try’s to answer you at once.  It is hard to gain a solid understanding of what they’re saying as they all try to speak at the same time.  You come to the conclusion that the people in the road believe a small child is being crushed by the van.  The bystanders are unsure of this but one of the people in the road says they witnessed the accident and is trying to persuade others to help lift the van.  The bystanders on the sidewalk are unconvinced.  Some say,  “it’s hot… I’m too tired.”  Some are busy taking pictures to post on Facebook.  Some are complaining that they’re being made to stay to give a police statement since they witnessed the accident.  You ask one of them if they also saw a child being crushed by this van.  The response you get is horrifying.  “Yes that is true but there’s nothing you can do about it… It’s too late to save the child and if it weren’t it would take too many people to lift that van.  It can’t be done…”

You start to step out into the road to answer the calls for help from those who are lifting with all their might.  Another person grabs your arm and distracts you with talk of there being no child under there…  “Don’t get your clothes dirty, the police can take care of it… it’s their job not yours.”  This sounds enticing… it is very hot… the work does look very tiring…  Besides some say there is no child under there… Maybe they’re right.

What will you do?

The child pinned under the car is our country.  The United States of America!
The van is our government crushing the life out of our country, out of the people.
The people in the road trying to lift the van are registered votes actively trying to make a difference.
Those standing on the sidewalk are all the rest… the ones who say one vote doesn’t matter… the one’s who don’t believe they can make a difference…

Do you want to live free?  Why don’t you vote?  Do you want to stop the socialist agenda of making everyone equally poor?  Why don’t you vote?  Do you want to preserve a country that is a place where your children can pursue their dreams?  WHY DON’T YOU VOTE? 

Social Services offices register their “clients” to vote.  Millions of people cast their vote based on who is going to keep “giving” to them free what you and I work to earn.  Take it back! Take it back with your vote.  One vote DOES make a difference! One vote cancels out one from the other side.  Please consider this and register to vote and then get out and vote.  PLEASE join us in the road.

"Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days." Ecclesiastes 11:1

"We must not expect to see an immediate reward for all the good we do; nor must we always confine our efforts to places and persons which seem likely to yield us a recompense for our labors.  The Egyptian casts his seed upon the waters of the Nile, where it might seem a sheer waste of corn.  But in due time the flood subsides, the rice or other grain sinks into the fertile mud, and rapidly a harvest is produced.  Let us today do good to the unthankful and the evil.  Let us teach the careless and the obstinate.  Unlikely waters may cover hopeful soil.  Nowhere shall our labor be in vain in the Lord.

It is ours to cast our bread upon the waters; it remains with God to fulfill the promise, "Thou shalt find it."  He will not let His promise fail.  His good word which we have spoken shall live, shall be found, shall be found by us.  Perhaps not just yet, but some day we shall reap what we have sown.  We must exercise our patience; for perhaps the Lord may exercise it.  "After many days," says the Scripture, and in many instances those days run into months and years, and yet the Word stands true.  God's promise will keep; let us mind that we keep the precept, and keep it this day."

~Charles H. Spurgeon

I was encouraged by these words.  The Lord has given me work to do and I'm so very glad to roll up my sleeves and work!  It feels good to be useful and to know that one day God will give the increase and I will be part of His harvest.  :)  Look around... there's lots or work to be done.  Jump in and help.