Are You a Rebel?

I've reflected for the last couple of years on my rebellious personality.  I used to be frustrated by it, and felt the need to keep it repressed lest I go and become a Revolutionary or mercenary or something else generally thought of as evil.

However, I've come to realize that it's a gift from God.  This personality is what allows me to to speak without fear in the face of evil.  (Yeah, I'm the one holding a five-foot tall poster of an aborted baby at an anniversary "celebration" of Roe v. Wade on university grounds.)  This personality is what allows me to defend Jesus and Christianity to a hostile fellow student.

This lack of fear must be harnessed though; I've been a bit too rough with folks I was arguing with and on those occasions certainly did nothing toward promoting the pro-life ethic or Christian way of life.  Mea maxima culpa.

Anyway - I'm writing about this because Celestine put up a post regarding the need to stand up for what one believes in.  And I want to assure the gentle reader that this applies to even small situations in our everyday lives--and not waiting for the huge events like the Soviet Union taking over the country.  (Can't you tell I'm a child of the 60's-70's?  I should have said "Chinese" instead!)

This became even more pertinent today, when OUPD announced that a gunshot had been heard on campus.  ("Funny" factoid:  The shot was heard at 6:15 a.m.  The "emergency" text came to me at 10:45 a.m.  Rapid response and all that....)  So what would you do if a shooter came into your classroom or into your hallway?  Would you play dead?  Hide?  What if you couldn't get away?  What would you do if the shooter stopped to reload?  I'll tell you what I'd do:  I'd do everything I could to take that SOB out ASAP.  No fear, people! Act!

Along the same line (at least in my brain) is the subject of the way we live our lives.  Are our Christian lives obscured by relativism?  Do we just go along to get along?  What are the consequences of this inaction?  Anita's post at V for Victory gives us an idea how devastating this may be.  Think about it.