I’ve been grappling with a question today: how does reporting so much bad news (and good news, when I can find it) serve Christ’s Kingdom? Because, really, it’s easy for “journalism” to become an end in itself… and then it serves nobody.
I came up with three reasons for doing this.
One, we have to know what we’re up against, don’t we? That’s half the art of war and half the art of politics.
Two, once we know what we’re up against, then maybe we can address it with heartfelt prayer and then do our level best to deal with it. As in “Here are things that need to be corrected!” And sometimes we succeed in correcting them. It’s always possible, for instance, to get Far Left fools voted off your local board of education. That’s a good start.
Three, news reporting can serve a kind of prophetic function. One might argue, “But Israel and Judah never listened to their prophets!” But that’s not altogether true, is it? On those rare occasions when God’s people did listen to His prophets, good things happened. See the Book of Esther; consider the actions of righteous kings like Hezekiah.
For these reasons I continue to report news. I do my best: how it turns out is up to the LORD.
