Lamb or Lion?

Today I read a news article which expected Christians
to be passive, to not cause waves, to compromise
and fall in line with the spirit of this age. Any Christian
who spoke contrary to the view expressed,
was condemned as being unloving and anti-social.
After all, the writers proclaimed “Aren’t true Christians
meant to be accepting, loving, meek people.“

This bothered me. Christians should be on the cutting edge,
not in the back room accepting any new fad that comes along.

Later in the day I read a short message by Kamran Yaraei.
Here is a quote from it:

“Christianity is not just about being nice, meek and naïve.
There is a time to be a lamb and there is a time to be a lion.
Most of us know how to be lambs,
now let us ask God the Father to teach us how to be lions.
We are children of the Lion and the Lamb.
It is a very strange combination.
… May your hands never shake as you face the enemy.
May God impart boldness and courage
into your heart, day and night.”

Quote from Food for the Heart, by Kamran Yaraei

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