'Tolerance'

Tolerance: it is one of the most used words in America these days, it seems. The media is forever talking about it, and people everywhere are following their lead, telling people that they need to be more tolerant. Or rather, to be more specific, telling 'Christians' to be more tolerant. To me, the word has become a like a dirty word. I scowl or cringe at the sound of the disgusting word. When I say it, I spit the word out distastefully. For you see, everyone is all to ready to tell us to be tolerant, but when it comes to certain things, practicing what they preach doesn't seem to fly into action. As a Christian, I am told by the media and the media's 'followers' that I need to be more tolerant of other people's actions, religions, and what they believe and do. If a Christian prays out loud at school, or takes a Bible to school though, he is punished. Where is the 'tolerance' there? Other religions, evolution and all manner of different things can be taught to kids at school, but bring up God, and you're in trouble. I don't see that as being very 'tolerant' of Christianity, and Christians. It seems to me, that what they really want is to push God, Jesus Christ, and all that the Lord represents, out of this country. And they are using 'tolerance' to slowly accomplish that.

What really bugs me is that there are Christians who are accepting the idea of 'tolerance'. People who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ are buying into the garbage that the media is feeding us, or trying to feed us, and are being 'tolerant' of others. But you see, the 'tolerance' that the media is preaching, is not Jesus tolerance. It is the media's tolerance. Defined by them; made by them. Their kind of tolerance is simply turning away and refusing to acknowledge sin, and looking the other way, when you see immoral things, that you know are sinful, and an abomination to the Lord. And that is not true 'tolerance'. I am not against tolerance. I am against America's idea of 'tolerance', that she has gotten from the media; and from the Devil.

Jesus did not 'tolerate'. He loved. Yes, he talked to sinners. Yes, he mingled with the lowest, most immoral, people. But he didn't 'tolerate' them. He loved them. He didn't 'tolerate' and respect their sin or them. Instead he told them to turn from their sin; to sin no more. He hated their sin. If Jesus wanted us to 'tolerate' people, why did he overthrow all the tables that had been set up in the temple? He destroyed and tipped over the tables, and yelled at the people who had set them up and were selling things in the tabernacle. He didn't 'tolerate' their 'way of doing things'. He was angry at them. And he loved them. He didn't 'tolerate' them and what they were doing, and He was furious at them, but he still loved them. I don't know about you, but I am determined to follow my Jesus, who died that I might have life, though His name. And because of that, I am also determined to follow in His footsteps and not 'tolerate' and respect that which is wrong. If it's wrong it's wrong. If it's right, it's right. It's pretty black and white. I will love others. I will love those who worship Allah, or mother Mary, or Buddah. But I will NOT 'tolerate' them or their deeds. As a Christian, as a Child of God, as a follower of Jesus Christ the Son of God, I can not 'tolerate' sin. I will not turn away, I will not look the other way, I will not accept sin. I can not. But I can, I will love.