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Locker Room Politics

Read: Exodus 21:22-23:13, Matthew 24:1-28, Psalm 29:1-11, Proverbs 7:6-23

You must not follow the crowd in doing wrong. (Exodus 23:2)

Locker Room

Relate: There’s a hierarchy to high school locker room politics. I was somewhere just below the middle. I was respected, but not admired. I was athletic but not muscular. I was a leader, but not in the locker room dynamic. There was another Christian who stood fairly high up. He was a linebacker on the football team. There was also the poor kid on the bottom who was being harassed by the locker room king. I wanted to help but didn’t. Actually, I was praying that the other Christian in there would stand up. He didn’t. He looked uncomfortable but he was laughing right along with everybody else. Just like me.

React: Did you ever have an unpopular boss or coworker? Ever have someone who just doesn’t understand the break room dynamics and ends up being the brunt of everyone else’s jokes? Do you stand up to them or just go along with everybody else? This scripture is sitting right in the middle of two sections titled “Social Responsibility” and “A Call for Justice”. The fact is, going along with the crowd is a form of social injustice. It isn’t the type that perpetuates the slave trade or throws people in concentration camps. It’s just the mentality that allows those that do to get away with it. It is also the mentality that allows the victim to snap and become the next news flash shooting. These things don’t just happen in schools or workplaces, it happened just yesterday in a nursing home. Peer pressure, locker room politics, is something each of us have to stand against everywhere, every day.

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God, give me your eyes so I can see the hurt and the need of those around me. Give me Your courage to stand against injustice both big and small. I am Your representative. Help me to extend Your courage into the break rooms and the locker rooms of my life.