Dear Community!
The flag has always been a symbol representing a sovereign state, a country, state, municipality, organization, society, clan, crown, kingdom, people or even a family. In addition, a flag also represents an ideology and a message.
For years people were afraid to see ships that had black flags on their mast; because the black flag showed the nature of the crew of such a vessel, pirates. They killed, robbed and destroyed everything they found.
On the other hand we know the symbology of the classic white flag. The flag that shows a clear message of peace.
Centuries ago, the armies, when they went to battle, carried in their front ranks the standard that they showed for their enemies to whom that army served and for what they fought.
A classic and well-known example that I can use to illustrate that is that of Rome; the famous Roman legions carried their banners in their first rows, which were nothing more than flags with the design of an eagle and the inscription "SPQR"; such an inscription was an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "Senatus Populusque Romanus" which means "The senate and the people of Rome".
With such an inscription the army made it clear to their enemies against those who were fighting and also served to remind their own soldiers by whom and for what they were fighting, that is, the Roman soldiers were remembered every time they saw the banner.
Even today, a flag represents a set of principles, or a lifestyle that people recognize and adopt as being theirs and for those who live and even die. (It is enough to see the organized fans of football teams).
It is somewhat common to see people involved in all kinds of discussions and ideological, preferential, social, political, theological, religious and other clashes.
Being this a global icon that, in symbolic language transmits a message, today I ask: What is the Christian's flag?
The only Christian banner is Christ himself, the Name that they carry, which represents everything they believe in, for which they live and for which many have already died.
The apostle Paul once said:
"No one who militates gets entangled in the business of life in order to please him that he got ready for war" 2 Timothy 2.4
The Christian is always thinking of things higher than the people in the world.
Set your sights on things above, not on things on earth.
Colossians 3: 2
The Christian is always thinking about the greater good and does not engage in conflicts of ideologies, philosophies, religiosity, politics, among others, because this reduces his field of vision and, therefore, the field of action as well.
This does not mean that the Christian should not share, collaborate and participate to improve the world around him, in reality, the Christian should do it even more than the people of the world, but without making such an activity his banner, without doing anything of this kind. things your main task or mission.
A mentor showed me a concrete example:
Every Christian can and should support a social work and, or, of charity; he can and should exercise his political duties; can and should contribute to the economy of the country, can and should help his neighbor; for the rest, he must do it with great joy and in the best way he can, but he should not make any of these activities a flag about to get into battles, sometimes judicial or even physical.
And even worse, passing over other people, "doing whatever is necessary" to defend their own interests even though they are noble, is something that the Christian should not do because love does not seek his own interests (1 Corinthians 13.5)
Dear Friends, what do I mean by all this?
It is essential that the citizen of the world can perceive in an unmistakable way, when looking at the Christian, whom he serves and for whom he militates, but that will only happen when the Christian carries only his only flag that is Christ, the Lord. Because the one who carries countless flags does not make clear to himself who he is serving or who he is fighting for.
I like the concept of @Sirknight, A Crusade for Freedom.
In some accounts of ancient wars, knights carried flags in front of the armies that represented their kingdom. Today, as Christians, we must carry the banner of Jesus Christ, the King of kings.
And Moses built an altar, and called his name Jehovah-nisi;
Exodus 17:15
Let us, then, like Moses, build an altar in our hearts and raise the name of Jesus Christ as our only flag so that we can make a difference in the world in this way.
I inform the brothers of Venezuela: on October 12, as usual, we go for the love of Jesus to walk the streets with love and let the world see that in our country there are brave men who struggle to raise the name of Jesus in This beautiful land.
