BLUE MAGAZINE NATIONAL PASTOR CHRIS AMOS SPEAKS OUT. WHEN RIGHT IS WRONG AND WRONG IS RIGHT.
/By: Chris Amos
As we approach a national election and the end the most tumultuous year I have ever witnessed, I’d like to provide, as a retired police officer and current pastor/police chaplain, a perspective that you may not have heard before. I pray that having done so you might find a little encouragement and hope. But first I want to remind you that what you are doing each and every day matters more than you could possibly know. You are appreciated and supported by what I believe to be the vast majority of people. And most importantly, you are not alone in this fight, but I digress.
You are seeing a spiritual blindness and the chaotic, destructive, and absolutely idiotic fruit of that blindness on an epic level. I lack words to properly describe the organized opposition to and war against law enforcement, and by extension our civil society in general. This opposition has come not simply from the criminals on the street who have always opposed law and order, but now they are joined by our political and civic leaders and academia elites, among many others. Behaviors that were widely criticized and discouraged a year ago are now being encouraged by many of our “leaders.” In fact, funds are being raised to bond out those responsible for riots, looting, arson, vandalism and assaults against LEOs. Famous athletes, actors, politicians, professors and even pastors are championing the causes of not only peaceful protesters, but with equal zeal, the criminals of whom I spoke. While at the same time these people are attacking law enforcement officers on every front. The irony is these are the same people who are the loudest to decry the unfairness of lumping them together with the few “bad apples” in their respective professions. Yet they have no hesitation or regret while doing this very thing to law enforcement officers. Hypocrites on the grandest of scales! The Bible tells us in Isaiah 5:20, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
King David faced opposition much of his life. As he looked back over the span of his life, he penned the words to the 37th Psalm. David wrote this as an old man, reflecting on what he had seen and experienced. Speaking of those who had unjustly attacked him, David wrote in verses 12-13, “The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.” We’ve seen a lot of plotting and the gnashing of teeth lately against LEOs. Just think of those deputies ambushed in CA. and the idiots who stood outside the emergency room chanting for their deaths. But then David continues in verse 13, “The Lord LAUGHS at him, For He sees that his day is coming.” Friends, let that sink in for a second, “The Lord LAUGHS at him, For He sees that his day is coming.”
It may seem that chaos rules the day. Police officers are being unjustly charged, criminals hailed as heroes, departments defunded, even in some cases eliminated (we’ll see how well that works for them), and on I can go. And yet as this happens “The LORD laughs.” Not at the innocent men and women, young and old being impacted by the chaos but at those perpetuating the chaos, those stoking the fires, those fanning the flames, those seeking to “blow up the whole system.” God laughs because He knows their days are numbered.
David continues in his Psalm in verses 14-15, “The wicked have drawn the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay those who are of upright conduct. Their sword shall enter their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.” Their wicked words inevitably turned to wicked actions, you see that every day. And yet David tells us God turned the very weapons the wicked had used to attack David on themselves. David stood across a field of battle from the giant Goliath. David would in short order kill Goliath and cut off Goliath’s head WITH Goliath’s sword [1 Samuel 17:51]. Later, David was attacked by King Saul, David’s only crime was that of loyally supporting the King. King Saul’s life ended as he fell on HIS OWN sword in battle [1 Samuel 31:4]. Haman made a gallows on which he would kill his hated enemy, the Jew Mordecai. Haman ended up being killed on the gallows HE HAD BUILT [Esther 7:10]. Mordecai was promoted to Haman’s now-vacant position.
Friends, things are not well. In fact I suspect they will grow even worse. But we can rest assured God is still on the Throne, He is in control. And when the moment is right He will act. Those who stand against Him will face destruction and death on a scale unlike anything mankind has ever seen. Our challenge, our call, our duty today is to put our very lives and trust in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ and then carry out our lives in a way that is just, righteous, and noble. Difficult days lie ahead, but as one cancer survivor once said, “It’s just today, not forever.” Friends, in Jesus we can and will overcome the evil one of this world. Of this we can be sure. I’ve staked my very life on it, and Jesus as never failed me, nor will He you. See you at the finish line!
