Stand alone for what you believe

But what if we choose instead to take a position of support for what we believe to be right? Well, we will find no supportive group surrounding us. In fact, we risk being shouted down by contradicting others. To stand for what is right you often have to stand alone.

Consider the situation of Barrabas and Christ. Were those seeking Christ’s crucifixion in the right? No. Were they even in the majority? Perhaps not.

However, Christ’s supporters had either fallen silent or fallen away from him; this for the purpose of remaining safe from the crowd or going even further and ensconcing themselves within its bosom.

For the support of Christ and the Christian position, many throughout the years have stood alone and paid severe consequences.

Nowadays, though there is no longer any persecution of the church on this side of the world, is it that Christians are still falling silent or falling away simply to join the crowd? I support the paying of property tax as a Christian and a Trinidadian. I do not, unlike others, have one issue with the tax. My God and my country have been supremely good to me and I can’t wait to contribute to TT at this time in this way.

As for my fellow Christians and citizens, stand alone when you believe something to be right; forget the crowd. Write a letter, post a comment, speak out. Support.

ANISA GRANT via email