Human Responsibility
Speech 2
Good morning
my brethren, and may I also say what a beautiful day it is out here today.
I like you
believe that we are all gathered here for the same reasons and ambitions.
And that we
have the same union of goals out here today.
And has we sit and stand here shoulder to shoulder we will share the
same intentions between ourselves. Out
here today I believe we can start to see from what has been from what is
happening that change and the changes we have desired are starting to come to
pass. My friends, brethren the times
are changing fast likewise those who are working within them.
The ways of before are not held up and
praised as much as they were when they first came into place. As they were in the days when they were
practiced by their pioneers and by their builders. People like you, me take these standards laid before us like a
wind. We have very much forgotten or
not taken into account through our daily lives and by our motives as a people
the importance of our inheritance and the initiative of what was built for the
reasons they were at first.
And so the same question falls on us
yet again? And that is where should we
shift the responsibility? The
responsibilities of our circumstances?
As they stand before us, the individual the social, civil and
global? All in all we are experiencing
what the consequences of the actions or the non-actions that have become what
we call the-now, or even “the times of now.”
We can no gain power by dumping in the hole of our situation those who
we see fit to enter it. Dumping the
blame on the scapegoats like others have done.
If we were that would only be making
our targets bland and to make things appear easier as if it were merely a one
problem situation. No there are
matters-of-the fact that have brought upon what we live to this moment. Matters
and circumstances as they revolve and turn one another to bring us here and
now.
Just today as
I was on my way to this place a person approached me with what they said needed
an “immediate response.” Now this
person handed this to me, and the information and on it read “this year will be
bigger than the last, and afterwards it will get bigger and bigger and bigger
until it can peak no more.”
The situation
was concerning the gathering of brethren for defending the Christian faith in
the nations that do not allow the faith to be practiced. And he was also
describing to me vividly how it was us who went to Christianize their nation in
the beginning and now they are coming back to us with burning testimonies of
survival, endurance, faith and action.
And this is what is making people over here and on this side become
aware of their plight. “They are now
viewed not as isolated Islands but as a Multi-National Alliance of those who
are holding up their faith against a State that would rather crush their
spirit.” These were the words of the
man whom approached me this early dawn.
What this situation hinted to me is that the more burning the testimony
the more we will know about the situation and the more we know about a
situation the more we will have to defend it when the testing times come. I believe it is right to say; these
Christians being tried and tested in those nations have neither got the time
and are not in any position as hunted men and women to shift the blame and make
easy targets responsible for their conditions.
Instead of taking that easy route they confront us with their own responsibilities
for their beliefs in return. Friends, if we want to grow and to ascend with our
take on this life and the opinions that we share then we have to start to move
more in that direction. We must first hold on cautiously and protect what
unites us, then confront our own responsibilities to each other. I believe this can start to happen from the
moment that the realization of our own identities towards one and other brings
us together while keeping in the foreground each one’s vision and each one’s
way. On this front though we are held together
to come for this cause as we are today by this strength of our gathering, we
will not be a stride as overwhelming masses barbarically organizing confusion
as fear, but more coming with stricter sound lifting all in each our voice, and
making way for what will come to be the-decisions we will all see fit to take
for these just matters.
Brethren, it
is important now that we unanimously reach the point of responsibility that
those of other crowds cannot help themselves but to respect. All what we stand
for today, that is the cause for our lives.
That will have others see us and want to join us. They would, will say “let our responsibility
be like theirs and let us make theirs as ours and together we will defend and
endure for the same reasons that our vision may pull through and until our
objectives are met.” We can do it my
friends we will do it people when we know that it is more a matter of accepting
our conditions that are holding us back.
Accepting it not as a hindrance or weakness as it would appear to be but
has the excess fat of our tissues which we need to exercise and harden into
muscle moving, vitality. Just the same
we must be on guard my people we must always be ready. The time of vigilance and preparedness is as
always at present that is now.
End of speech
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