“Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we didn’t know about this,’ won’t he who weighs hearts consider it? Won’t he who protects your life know? Won’t he repay a person according to his work?” (v. 10-12)

This is it.

This is the ethic that utterly rejects both willful ignorance and willing apathy.

You and I have been placed in “a difficult time,” by grace. Will we do nothing in the face of pain, poverty, and injustice? Will we do nothing in an age of deceit? Will we do nothing, though our neighbors and the nations are lost—and stumbling toward death?

No.

This is our ethic, fully illuminated by the Gospel, and it compels us to do something. Give for them. Go to them. Get in their lives and into their paths to that they might know grace, and the better way.

The One who made them loves them. And He watches as we, His people, do (or don’t) for their sakes.

— Tyler