The Help

I just finished watching the film, The Help. What struck me was the different categories of people in the film. There were the truly nasty people like Hilly and the president of the Daughters of America. They were people who had some sort of power or hold over others. They knew they had this power and they used it to full effect to antagonise others, especially the African-Americans. The other category of people were the ones who were used by the people to inflict pain on others like Skeeters mother and Elizebeth. They didn't have the courage of their convictions (Skeeter's mother discovered her own in the end) even when they didn't agree with what was being done or said. At times, they were forced to do something they didn't want to do. They kept quiet because they wanted to belong to a group or clique and they ended up treating others like dirt.

Most Christians are like the latter. It's not as if we don't know the truth. It stares us right in the face everyday and speaks to us loudly at night. But we choose to ignore because we would rather take the path of least resistance. We see the trouble that other get because of standing for the truth and we feel that we cannot take the hassle so we keep quiet.

Regardless of whether or not we keep quiet in the face of truth, the fact remains that truth cannot be killed, thrown away or ignored. It will always be there. It would be a different matter altogether if we didn't know the truth,but we do. Instead of admitting the truth, we try to obfuscate it with our own ideas about what should be. The world has been gripped by the fever of "equality" and so we are afraid of going against the flow, so to speak. The world wants to give us a concept of God that is untrue but we are either ashamed of him or afraid of the backlash to speak our minds.

The world hates the truth. Paul told Timothy that in the last days, people would have itching ears and would only want to hear what they want to hear. That is also the case even about "Christians". We want to be at "peace" with the world even when the world wants nothing to do with us. We just so want to blend in that we are ready to do anything, including not saying anything in the hope that the world will look more kindly at us. We hope that this will make us happy but we end up miserable. In the end we will discover that the only thing that will endure is truth and every lie will fade. So me might as well just get with the program and be happy.

JC Cruz is the author of DECEPTIO published by WestBow Press (http://www.westbowpress.com/) , a division of Thomas Nelson Publishing. You can follow him on Twitter @Cruz_JCReal