An Oboservation

So I just finished watching Blood Diamond. Good movie I thought. I have various and estranged thoughts, feelings and opinions regarding it but I only feel compelled to leave one. The entire movie was to depict the horrors and the atrocity of mankind in Africa. It evoked the grief and terror of merciless bloodshed, violence, destruction and devastion of human life for personal and vain gainings. Prior to the feature there was a preview for the video game based on the movie 300 in which you the participant hack and slash your way to a gruesome victory letting your main accomplishment be the heap of bodies in your wake. Amidst all of the sentiment and attempts to grab at our heartstrings to bring justice to a fallen and maimed world there is nothing sheer exposure will permanantly bring. The world is spinning in its own circles. No one has an army to intervene, the UN is worthless, the US is tied up in its other obligations and as soon as we would entire the nation within 3 weeks the war would be protested by the same people who demanded they be sent. As Darfur was rocked for there was nothing brought. No peace, nothing. Is there any settlement now. Has Rwanda become a haven of utopian conquest. No. What are opinions and what are thoughts. Amidst words there is nothing but rhetoric and empty dreams. The masses come demanding food and drink yet the only true answer is to eat the flesh and to drink the blood of Christ. We have our movements. Let Bono seel all he has to give it to the poor to only let them purchase weapons and then continue to feed off of each other. Lets drop food and feed egos letting us know that we who are good, who have been blessed with a greater and higher moral authority, who know better than anyone else, by mere providence are the sole salvation for these pity cases that demand our all (by all I mean our two cents both literal and metaphorically speaking). There is a crisis. Yet how can we as a culture mitigate that which we have no grid for and at the same time still posess the depths of wickedness we are trying to squelch. Do we therefore abandon hope and drop what we do, by no means. Do we cut aid and pull back, no. To we hide to be enveloped in ignorrance, of course not. We, I say we as Christians, are to go before the throne and command the kingdom to come. The kingdom yearns to go forth and take the land with violence. Through intercession, mercy deeds, and the release of the Gospel can any true change can happen. I mean within the entire war torn continent the only real change for good is being done by men and women like Rolland and Heidi Baker. Not only are people the problem but so are principalities and demons. We need God. I sit here kind of stunned and left with a sleu of thoughts regarding the recent release of movies like this. I mean for me personally I take it as an oppurtunity to see the world around me because the scant news articles I occassionally peruse really don't paint that great of a picture. Yet I am left worried. Americans love entertainment and we love sentiment. We love to boldly go forth and parade a cause. It is like a fad. Trapped within our suburban landscapes many march for declaring truth, justice, and problems. However, there is a day coming where every prop will be knocked away and even those in mansions will manifest the truth of their humanity, which is wickedness. There is none righteous but God. He loves righteousness and hates wickedness. Apart from His sight there is only flaw and evil. In the ever growing world community we need sentiment to begin to wilt and true compassion to take its place.