The voice of reason with a mob mentality

Have you ever been the victim of a mob mentality? 

Mob mentality is cruel and unjust. 

Mob mentality is unreasonable and quite honestly foolish!  

History has proven over and over you join the mob today and tomorrow you will be the one mobbed. 

Do not think you will escape it. Because mob mentality has lost its voice of reason. 

Did you know it only takes one person to speak with the voice of reason to calm a crowd?  

This morning as I read about the unnamed clerk mentioned in Acts 19:35, I was humbled by this clerk's ability to calm a crowd and send them home. He dismissed a rioting group with the voice of reason.

It only took one person! One person!

It is wise to pray for the voice of reason. It is wise to speak up when it will calm a crowd. It is wise to step up, step in, and move forward even when it is scary.

Sometimes, when I read about or see such courage in others, I fear that in the moment I will not be reasonable. I will join in the emotion. I will celebrate the spirit of judgment and act as if I am justice and even worse act like God. 

This kind of behavior (a mob mentality) should not be tolerated or held up with esteem. It needs to be reasoned with and when it is not reasonable then held accountable for its actions.  

Hiding in the crowd will never hide before God the attitude or behavior acted upon. God sees. God does not forget. God will not be mocked.

So, how can I, we, become the voice of reason? 

As I said before, we must pray for it because each of us are only one short fuse from joining in the emotion of the moment as if we are justified. We are not!

When I taught preschool, there were three rules we enforced in the classroom. 

You cannot hurt yourself.

You cannot hurt others.

You cannot hurt property.

Let's remind this generation these three rules are the start of reasonable behavior! 

Shalom y'all!