SCRIPTURE: For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 ESV
QUOTE: “The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.” – Lady Bird Johnson
THOUGHT: All of my life I’ve been taught to respect and value others. In fact, my brother once pondered if this kind of character we were taught as children is what got us to this point in culture. While conservative thinkers have been busy respecting and valuing others, raising children, building businesses, churches, communities and farms and otherwise tolerating the clash of ideas that comes with freedom, a militant left has infiltrated the structures of our nation. It’s hard to fathom that too much tolerance leads to intolerance by the object of your toleration. I suppose it’s kind of like tolerating a snake in your house – you, or someone you love, eventually gets bit.
Eric Metaxas, the author of many books including Bonhoeffer, If You Can Keep It, and most recently, Letter to the American Church, put it like this in an interview: “It’s the voice of the devil that says ‘listen, you have no business commenting on all these other issues.’ The fact of the matter is not only do you have a business commenting on them, God calls you to do that … to take your faith into everything. If you don’t care about people whose lives are being destroyed with the erasure of the southern border … if you don’t care about the fentanyl flooding America and destroying families … you think God’s not going to hold you accountable? Do you don’t think you can be silent on that? You think you can be silent on people that are struggling with the transgender lunacy that’s been shoved down our throats? We are the ones that are supposed to be free to speak the truth. And God calls us to speak the truth, and so there’s nothing more horrifying than when the church is silent. When Christians are silent, that is the great horror.” [for full interview]
If we don’t speak, I say with the old Southern Gospel songwriter, “we’re just getting used to the dark.”
SONG: Getting Used to the Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6PobnshWk
PRAYER: Oh God, don’t let our eyes adjust to the dark, rather let us be lights on a million hills in this land, including Capitol Hill.
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