Taking A Stand
On Sunday night I watched a movie called 'Veronica Guerrin'. It's a true story about an Irish journalist who decides to fight, through her newspaper articles, a drug epidemic that was happening in Ireland where children where being led into drug use. In a an attempt to do her own investigations for her articles, she tries to put the ringleader of it behind bars. Unfortunately she gets caught up in it all and after being shot in the leg and beat to a pulp and emotionally threatened, the drug ring puts an end to her life and she dies.
It's a movie that looked dodgey and one that i had no particular interest in watching (i'm not into English/Irish/Scotish/Welsh Television/film) but due to the lack of entertainment and my boredom i sat down and watched it. I'm glad i did. It was a sad story but one of determination and passion, a burning passion. This lady, Veronica Guerrin felt so strongly about the drug situation in Ireland that she was willing to lay down her life for it. Throughout the movie, and particularly once her family had been threatened, they urged her to stop getting involved but she refused to let them get away with it or 'win' as she referred to it. She fought them to the end to see justice come about.
Some interesting facts:
Within ONE year after her death, the crime rate had dropped by 15%
BUT
Within 6 years 150 something journalists had died pursuing the same justice Veronica Guerrin had fought for!
Part of me felt so sad for this woman and the aftermath she had left with her family. But another part of me was so inspired by her story! Why aren't there more people like Veronica Guerrin? Have we become such a lazy, selfish and greedy society that the only people we care about are ourselves? I think that's EXACTLY what's happened to our society and our world! People care more about politics and what's in it for them so much that if they're not scared off by what might happen to them, they're PUT OFF by how little might be in it for them.
What's wrong with us? THAT'S what made me sad! We've lost the loyalty for eachother! We don't care enough about eachother, giving of ourselves would cost us too much. But when WE, ourselves get into trouble we expect other people to bail us out! Yea that works?!
After all these thoughts flooded my mind, i heard God speak very clearly to me. I felt him press against my heart in a way that made me want to gasp for air even though the oxygen was quite steadily passing in and out of my lungs.
"What are you fighting for?"
I've signed up for a Social Justice Conference that's happening in March which the Salvo's are holding. It's a Conference i've known about for ages now just not one I had any desire to go to, not even one i'd been praying about. But when i felt God say that to me, some things started sinking in. I'd been asked to help out with it but without even praying, i'd said 'ok!'. Maybe God had decided it was something i should go to even before i agreed to it. Who knows?! All i knew was that i had to go! God placed that desire in my heart to go whereas before, i had NO desire.
Here's a plug:
"I'LL FIGHT" SOCIAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE
Territorial Conference sponsored by The Greater West Division
30-31 March 2007 at Sydney Congress Hall 140 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.
Cost: $40 per person
website: www.illfight.com.au
Register on line or ring 96357400 for more information and posters/flyers
Registrations open now
It's a movie that looked dodgey and one that i had no particular interest in watching (i'm not into English/Irish/Scotish/Welsh Television/film) but due to the lack of entertainment and my boredom i sat down and watched it. I'm glad i did. It was a sad story but one of determination and passion, a burning passion. This lady, Veronica Guerrin felt so strongly about the drug situation in Ireland that she was willing to lay down her life for it. Throughout the movie, and particularly once her family had been threatened, they urged her to stop getting involved but she refused to let them get away with it or 'win' as she referred to it. She fought them to the end to see justice come about.
Some interesting facts:
Within ONE year after her death, the crime rate had dropped by 15%
BUT
Within 6 years 150 something journalists had died pursuing the same justice Veronica Guerrin had fought for!
Part of me felt so sad for this woman and the aftermath she had left with her family. But another part of me was so inspired by her story! Why aren't there more people like Veronica Guerrin? Have we become such a lazy, selfish and greedy society that the only people we care about are ourselves? I think that's EXACTLY what's happened to our society and our world! People care more about politics and what's in it for them so much that if they're not scared off by what might happen to them, they're PUT OFF by how little might be in it for them.
What's wrong with us? THAT'S what made me sad! We've lost the loyalty for eachother! We don't care enough about eachother, giving of ourselves would cost us too much. But when WE, ourselves get into trouble we expect other people to bail us out! Yea that works?!
After all these thoughts flooded my mind, i heard God speak very clearly to me. I felt him press against my heart in a way that made me want to gasp for air even though the oxygen was quite steadily passing in and out of my lungs.
"What are you fighting for?"
I've signed up for a Social Justice Conference that's happening in March which the Salvo's are holding. It's a Conference i've known about for ages now just not one I had any desire to go to, not even one i'd been praying about. But when i felt God say that to me, some things started sinking in. I'd been asked to help out with it but without even praying, i'd said 'ok!'. Maybe God had decided it was something i should go to even before i agreed to it. Who knows?! All i knew was that i had to go! God placed that desire in my heart to go whereas before, i had NO desire.
Here's a plug:
Territorial Conference sponsored by The Greater West Division
30-31 March 2007 at Sydney Congress Hall
Cost: $40 per person
website: www.illfight.com.au
Register on line or ring 96357400 for more information and posters/flyers
Registrations open now
There are a lot of things in my life at the moment, particularly in the last 6 months or so that make me question the authenticity of God's voice. I find it difficult to say that God told me this or God told me that because if it wasn't God speaking to me and it was just some 'gut feeling' then I degrade God by saying it was him when it wasn't.
Even though the desire to fight social injustices was so strong, i still questioned whether it was God. Yesterday i promoted the Conference fairly strongly and, although it shouldn't have, some things people said to me about it took me by surprise and a little offguard. But i guess it all fits. When you follow God's leading and you be obedient to his voice and what he asks you to do, the enemy isn't gonna sit by and go, 'oh isn't that nice?!' he will do all sorts of things to bring you down and make sure that you're not running after God.
When i realised that and i remembered how strong i felt that it was God's voice, i really started to believe that this was something i didn't make up, not a gut feeling but something more and so dressing myself in God's armour, i'm putting it into God's hands and praying for the strength to fight for stuff that's not right.
Stand for something or you'll fall for anything!
Tink xoxo
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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