Thought for the week
LAST week our newly-elected prime minister visited Wales to try to find favour and bring messages of support to our part of the UK. Some cheered his presence and others booed.
Maybe the same people cheered his predecessor some few years before, some no doubt think Boris Johnson is the man to ‘sort out the country’. It’s not dissimilar across the pond. Donald Trump is probably hated and revered in equal measure.
This is not a reflection on political leaders, however, moreover, a thought about how popularity comes and goes and how we discern whom to respect, trust and follow? In our media-flooded world we are constantly dazzled by the next best hero, leader or even celebrity whom we can adore and worship. (But if they disappoint us, we can always find another one the following week!)
It all seems so fickle and superficial. Things have always been so. It reminds me of what the Bible teaches, when people literally ‘worshipped the ground Jesus walked on’ and then, days later they booed and jeered at him and asked for him to be crucified. People quickly stopped admiring the man who wound up dead on a tree.
But if you’re looking for someone to respect, I suggest you look no further than this man who defied the grave. A man who spoke with authority, knew his purpose, kept all his promises, loved and cared for his followers and gave his life to save others. Death wasn’t the end for him. Jesus Christ wasn’t always popular; but he was truth, love and I believe, the saviour of the world. Maybe you want to seriously consider following him?
Karen Sadler