For recent updates on the Midland crisis, certainly people are getting to know the real truth about what really happened. The people who gave Midland a challenge to face, by trying to boycott and try to destroy the integrity of the company, seem to lose their grounds and start falling. They are falling apart. Their deeds are starting to show up and people are seeing it. I just wonder? Will they truly give up? Will they humble themselves and accept their faults? It’s just that these days are the last days, as I believe. People will do everything to satisfy their wants or greed.
After Sunday has passed, own stories have been told. Some spoke of their own experiences, how they argued too with a stall owner, how fun it was to sell the paper, how they were able to sell all the paper, etc. But the conflicts continued.
The master minds of the boycott seem to have not realized that the Baguio Midland Courier management, staff & employees will not stand down upon their own terms. They tried to make negotiations, but with the great consequences (people losing a livelihood, people being threatened, people being shamed), negotiations was to no effect. They have truly failed and doomed themselves by their own greed.
Greed, a truly powerful instrument of temptation! Once you give in, it will corrupt you. Sin will always be the fruit of it.
But one thing I have in mind, God’s grace, mercy and His compassion. I remember the story of Jonah (Jonah 4). Having watched a kiddie movie entitled “Jonah, a Veggietales Movie,” this story greatly reminds me, and supposed to be. Christians being merciful and compassionate to other people, even if they are unworthy of it, just like our God. But Jonah, at the end, didn’t get it. He still became bitter and angry at the people of Nineveh, even if they already have repented. He didn’t get the point, that as one who follows and obeys God, he should also learn to give chances to other people, just as God has given another chance to repent the people of Nineveh.
Going back to the Midland issue, some news boys and stall owner seem to have regret of what they have done. I don’t know their hearts, but as what I have heard, some came to the office begging to give them a chance. My fellow workmates have told the story about them (the newsboys and stall owners) trying to ask or perhaps beg that their livelihood be given back. They said that their hands we’re even trembling, perhaps of shame and eating up their own pride. Even the one, who got angry at one of my fellow workmates, came to ask for forgiveness, as what I’ve heard. But I haven’t heard if the one who got angry with me and my workmate, came to ask forgiveness. Well, sorry for the hearsays. I have no real experience on how they begged for their livelihood to be given back.
Well, I can’t blame them for false information they may have been fed, but they also have to learn to seek the truth. Truly, they are pitied for it’s really hard to look for a work these days for living. As I have said previously, so many bills and costs are increasing. But sorry to those dealers who set their pride so high and head so big, the management has decided to not help them no more (if I’m right).
As I experience these situations I continue to be reminded of God’s Word telling of these times (II Tim. 3). And the hope we all Christians await.
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
And perhaps soon we might face the “a piece of bread could buy a bag of gold” era but hopefully not. Hope that God will truly take His people before the Great Tribulation. But we must also be reminded of our mission, preaching the Gospel to the lost. But sadly to say, we are more focused and busy thinking about ourselves, rather than giving a hand to help or fighting one against another than reaching the lost.
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