Yesterday as William and I sat out on the beach watching Camdyn jump in the tide pools, enjoying the salty sea breeze, and taking our surroundings in, I kept picking up handfuls of sand. I would run my fingers through the grainy texture, rub it between my fingers and pick up another handful. My toes seemed to work without my brain telling them to. Digging my feet into the sand over and over again, I became entranced in thinking about the sand beneath my wiggling toes and fingers.
During all of my sand awareness, William and I were discussing the words and reactions of another person, who doesn't believe in God or the bible. Things keep coming up and we have talked about it off and on, but on this day they had made another post about their "unbelief" on facebook, so it was on the forefront. Ironically, the sand I seemed mesmerized with sparked my words in the conversation. While William was speaking mid sentence, I stopped him. I held up the handful of sand my mind had been obsessing over the past half hour and I picked out one minuscule grain of sand out of the handful I had. I asked William how many grains of sand he thought was on the entire earth. I went on to say that the idea completely boggled me and I thought it was so enormous of an idea to think about that I almost couldn't fathom it myself. My next words were, "How can anyone look at all of this, the ocean, the sea life, these tiny grains of sand, and not believe in God? Not believe that someone so powerful and amazing created this beauty, this splendor, this majestic work!
Little did I realize the decisions made by our country that would come about today, but today when I read about the Supreme Court decision, I thought back to the tiny grain of sand I held just yesterday. I thought about myself in an ocean of Christians, a sea of people, one speck in an immense world. I thought about what I stand for and while I may just be a tiny part of the nation, just like the sand, I still must stand up for what I believe in. I cannot sway my beliefs based on the decisions of others.
While we may be "offended" by the decision made in our country today, together as Christians, who believe in a majestic, powerful, awesome God, we will overcome what this world has to offer. Our biblical beliefs may be scoffed at, ridiculed, or condemned but my bible also tells me of the prize at the end for those who have run the race and fought the fight and believe in him.
Though I do not support the decision made today, and feel saddened that the biblical basis our country was founded on seems lost, I will not bash or show hate to those who do not believe what I do or hold the biblical principles that I do because God is love. He commands us to love one another. How can an unbeliever see that God is love, if his people do not show it? I will however, stand firm, anchored in the sand, unmoving and unwilling to change my beliefs, morality, or bible truths. I believe. I know who my savior and anchor is and on that I will stand.