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Happy Australia Day!
With all of the recent Oprah lovin’, it’s hard not to love our amazing country. There’s something very significant about our distant location from practically everything except New Zealand, that does something to our national sense of self-awareness.
I’ll never forget when Australia II won the America’s Cup Yacht Challenge, and our PM, Bob Hawke, famously declared, “Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum”! Men at Work’s “Land Down Under” blared across the country. The nation experienced a wave of euphoric pride- that, which in my young life, I had never experienced before. A realization…I’m an Australian.
David Koch recently wrote an article entitled What I hate about Australia Day. In it, he encourages all Australian’s to take a firm stand against small-mindedness of racism.
It’s so important to stand for something worth standing for. Sometimes “standing” requires us to ‘take a stand’, or ‘stand up’. Some people don’t stand for anything. Australian history paints a picture of a nation proud to take a stand where others fear to even go.
As believers, we are all required to take a stand. How we live must always stand for something greater than the now. Jesus stood where no other man could. When Jesus stood, time stood still.
We are so graced to live in this beautiful, rugged and diverse country. We have many reasons to take a stand for the greatest cause.
What do you stand for?
Nath Bridgewater is the Lead Pastor of Canvas Church
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