Who Would You Burn at the Stake?

“The fact is, he who truly believes the truth lives it out truly.”

__F. E. Marsh

Today marks the 594th anniversary of Joan of Arc being burned at the stake. A classic example of the truth of the saying: No good deed goes unpunished. (But I digress.)

What I want to ask you is who would you burn at the stake? 

Don’t confuse being tolerate with indifference.  Live and let live is not an excuse to ignore truth.  Just because you’re not making waves doesn’t mean that there is not a storm brewing under the surface. 

I know, our forebearers could get extreme – both the burners and the burnees.  But at least they believed in something.  Before we sit in judgment on them for their intolerance and radical actions, perhaps we should practice a little humility and examine our own hearts as to what we truly believe in.

I’m not for burning people at the stake, but I am for putting down a stake somewhere about something that matters and, like Martin Luther who would not recant his commitment to the truth of Scripture, say, “Here I stand. I can do no other.”

The ONE THING for today: While we are not called to be the judge of our fellowman, we are called to make judgments.  And those judgments will set the direction of our life and culture around us.