No.7

Please read 2 Chronicles 6:12-42.
If you have not been paying attention to current events, or if you find it too depressing to think about, I ask you to overcome this immaturity now, before you are caught off guard, and your fears become reality because you were too complacent to speak up.

I'm sorry I haven't been fighting and speaking up all along. I've been where you may be now. I liked ignorance because it didn't require anything of me. I liked not caring because I felt it removed the responsibility from me. But it doesn't. Whether you speak up or not, whether you care or not, what is happening in America now WILL AFFECT YOU. So you can stand up and speak out or you can sit down and shut up, but either way, what's coming is coming.

Many of you have been standing and speaking up long before me. And I wish I had listened to you earlier. Some of you are offended by what I have just said, concluding it's none of my business and that you've already done everything you can-why am I so pushy? You want me to stop prodding, because it's just making you mad.

If you feel that way, it's because I'm preaching to the choir, right? Why am I preaching to the choir, I wonder? Where is everybody? I'm so sorry to hammer on people who get it already. That's not what I'm trying to do.

Today, May 13, 2010, every one of us has access to all the information we could possibly want. It's been this way since the internet opened up the world at the touch of a button. But this, my friends, will change. And what I've put up on this blog might become treason, and it might become censored. In a short time, you might not be able to speak your mind without being censored yourself. Now, you are free to do and say whatever you want. How do you use that freedom? What is it worth to you?

It's true and has been true time out of mind that "you don't know what you have until it's gone". If you don't get to read blogs like mine, see facebook posts, read email alerts, hear things like talk radio or Christian radio, watch stuff like Fox News on TV...would you feel you were alone? Would standing alone be scary enough to keep you quiet? It might. Those who oppose us are COUNTING ON IT. They are banking on you shutting up when you can't hear anyone else. What are you going to do?

I pray I have the courage on the day I lose my freedom to speak. I pray I can say before God and my peers that I used my freedom to speak for a cause greater than myself. I pray I can look back and know I did my level best to honor God and speak the Truth. And I pray that on that day, I will look forward to laboring and fighting for the RESTORATION OF WHAT WE HAVE LOST, because I know that it is right to preserve and cherish, even to the point of shedding blood.

Men and women you know have willingly given their youth, their mental health and peace of mind, their relationships and families, even their lives to fight for the preservation of this freedom we possess. They volunteered to do this. Can you sacrifice a little 'social discomfort' for the truth, for what is right and good? Can you? Because if you can, you are on your way to having the kind of commitment our soldiers have to their country. If you can't, I'm sorry for you. You will look back and wish you had.

I know that if you are reading this, you probably are one of those people who do speak out, stand up, pray, and vote according your faith and Biblical principles. But you know someone who is on the fence, and that's who I'm talking to now. Say this to them: If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything. What do you stand for?

May God, who knows the hearts of every one of us, see fit to spare us from the worst. But even if he does not, my course is set. Remember: "He is good, and His steadfast love endure forever."