Do you remember when "WWJD" was plastered all over keychains, bumper stickers, and backpacks?
I remember not knowing what that stood for, and even after I found out - wondering what it meant! Back then, it was "cool' to write WWJD on your backpack and go to church to be seen there, etc.
Fast-forward 10 years later, and I think I've finally got the gist of it, except - I don't really think about what anybody else would do.....just myself. I'm more concerned with my own actions to even bother to think about how anybody else would act! I know it seems selfish, but that's all the more reason to be concerned about it.
I know I'm not the most morally upright person. But compared to some, I'm pretty close - I don't steal, I haven't killed anybody, I'm a law-abiding citizen, for the most part. But I've also done lots of things that aren't so righteous. I hide items I want to buy in places where they don't belong in case I come back to the store and decide to purchase them. I occasionally make my sister cry, intentionally (it's not hard, The Lion King, makes her cry....every time).
But when I think about scenarios where I am present when someone is getting hurt, as in seriously injured - I get anxious. If I saw a kid in trouble, maybe being assaulted, by someone bigger and meaner than me, would I go help? If calling for help meant risking the poor kid get killed, would I risk my own life trying to protect someone else's? What if the perpetrator was a cop? Or if there were two people assaulting someone? Perhaps there's a valid reason why the victim was targeted? Does it matter?
I can't honestly say that I'd be that hero that at least tries to stick up for the victim.
This has been drifting into my mind and subconscious these past couple days because of these books I've been reading. They are sci-fi/ fantasy novels set in this fictional land where slaves are dragged through desert and wilderness, forced into every type of labor imaginable. I couldn't help but start dreaming that I lived in this fictional place - but then I just blank when it comes to my part to play. What would I do?
Deep thinking. Very deep thinking. As far as what would you do , it all depends on you. WWJD was put out for the world to realize if they are stuck in a situation, or are about to do something bad, they need to pray to Jesus or call up on him for advice.But Jesus has done a lot of things and some of them I am not willing to do. I am not willing to get thorns put around my head, get beaten with nails,glass, and rocks all in the form of a whip, and nailed to a cross. Jesus has some guts. But basically it is all up to you.