Swimming Upstream

Being Pro-Life in a Culture of Death part 1

 The follower of Jesus usually finds themselves swimming upstream against the current, in the opposite direction of others.  Not just to different, BUT to follow Jesus, who was not of this world and greatly opposed by the spirit of the age and the delusion of religion.

Recently I was interested to read that the original “General Lee” from “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series is set to cross the block at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale.  Known as “Lee 1,” this is the car seen flying through the air during the opening credits of the show, and was used during the filming of the first episode before being wrecked as it landed the famous jump. It was the first of more than 300 cars used during the seven-year run of the program. Only a couple of dozen are still known to exist.

The orange 1969 Dodge Charger was discovered sitting in a Georgia junk yard about a decade ago by the founder of The North American General Lee Fan Club, Travis Bell, who paid less than a grand for it, according to a report from Inside Line.

Not long ago a replica of the General Lee that was owned by John “Bo Duke” Schneider and featured in a Dukes of Hazzard reunion movie, sold in 2008 for $495,000. Experts say the original could fetch well over $1 million.  What the world often discards is far more valuable than ever thought.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14

Consider what Alfred Edersheim wrote of the Roman empire, prior to it’s collapse.

It has been rightly said, that the idea of conscience, as we understand it, was unknown to heathenism. Absolute right did not exist. Might was right. The social relations exhibited, if possible, even deeper corruption. The sanctity of marriage had ceased. Female dissipation and the general dissoluteness led at last to an almost entire cessation of marriage. Abortion, and the exposure and murder of newly-born children, were common and tolerated; unnatural vices, which even the greatest philosophers practiced, if not advocated, attained proportions which defy description (Alfred Edersheim on Ancient Society 1947, 259).

Created in His Image, recreated in Christ to know God, to follow Christ and shine His light into a dark, dark world. Swim hard against the current.