What’s Your Cause?

Generally speaking, why do people join a cause? One word sums it up: purpose. They need a purpose. In everyone’s core is the desire to have a purpose for living. As many have said, “If I don’t have a purpose, what’s the point in being here?” It brings importance, which reveals another element about purpose: affirmation. People crave importance, and purpose gives them a sense of it. Attached to it is this need to be the “knight in shining armor” who goes about righting the wrongs of society.  That’s because in each of us is also the desire for justice and to see it served. A just cause is a noble cause, and many desire nobility.
   Here’s the dilemma with all of this: any cause initiated or rooted in humanity falls woefully short, because true purpose, affirmation and justice can only be found in Jesus Christ. Mankind is incapable of setting people free. Everyone is guilty before God, which means none are truly just in themselves, and are incapable serving it in the purest sense of the word. Even the motives are skewed! There is an inner agenda for wanting to see justice served. Whether it’s the sense of importance, a sense of comfort in seeing others delivered from injustices similar to what they suffered, or even some sort of retribution. In some cases, it’s a matter easing their own conscience for the things they did wrongly toward others. How altruistic are they, really?
   At the core of true purpose and justice is love. And that love is revealed through Jesus Christ. Romans 5:8-11 But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom we have now received the atonement.
   So called “just causes” will never set things in order. They’ll never make things right. Sure, they may offer some relief to people, which in itself is good. But what about freedom from sin? What about true peace and God-given purpose. No program or cause that is not God-breathed offers any eternal solution. Think about this: if everyone in the world was a true disciple of Jesus Christ, none of us would have to lock our doors at night. Prisons and jail cells would be empty; in fact, they’d be dismantled because there’d be no need for them. We wouldn’t have to fight racial equality, because there is only one race, and everyone would indeed be equal. There’d be no more bickering; much less, wars amongst people and nations. Sounds like Heaven. Hmm.
   Anything short of the Cause of Christ, falls woefully short! Jesus is the Answer to every human need, which includes purpose, affirmation and justice. What did Jesus command us? Love one another and make disciples of nations (see John 15:12; Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).
   2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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