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Over the last few years, there have been television campaigns to stop abuse in the home.  The television advertisements vary slightly.  One I recall has a child being yelled at by an adult being told how useless he is.  Another shows a child crying in a dark corner while he hears his dad yelling at and hitting his mom.  More recently, I have seen an advertisement showing a family overhearing an abusive situation in their neighbors home. The family portrayed chooses not to intervene and ignore the activities occurring at their neighbors home.  All the advertisements attempt to get the viewer to feel for the abuse victims and to take action against the person committing the abuse, either by direct intervention or reporting the crime to authorities.  The viewer is made to feel guilty if action is not taken to protect the abuse victims, their neighbors.

Now the United States and Great Britain have taken the position of the intervening on behalf of their neighbor and are undergoing a lot of scrutiny not only within the world community, but also in their homelands.

Titus 2 does not take a "political" stand.  We do, however, take a Biblical stand on issues, as all Christians should.  We received an email containing a very good analogy on why the United States (and any country) should act when witnessing atrocities against mankind.  We have included a few verses on what God requires us to do in this situation.

(Words underlined defined from the Strong’s Concordance.)

"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look (to take aim at (spy), i.e. look (regard: consider, look at (on), mark) not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others."
Philippians 2:3-4

"How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid (defend, deliver, rescue, recover, save) them out of the hand of the wicked."
Psalm 82:2-4

"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." James 4:17

A LESSON TO MY SON
by A PROUD AMERICAN Irma S. Chambers

The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation.

My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window. He told him:

"Son, stand there and tell me what you see?" "I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses." he replied. "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush." Our son giggled and said "OK."

"Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different country," my husband said. "OK Dad, I'm pretending."

"Now I want you to stand there and look out the window and see that man come out of his house with his wife and he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying, they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids and afraid of their father. You see all of this son... what do you do?" "Dad?" "What do you do son?!" "I call the police, Dad."

"OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations and they take your call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do you do then son?!"

"Dad, but the police are supposed to help!" My son starts to whine. "They don't want to son, because they say that it is not their place or your place to get involved and that you should stay out of it," my husband says.

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