9.12.25

9.12.25

A man passed away, shot on Wednesday. I remember where I was.

Words are thrown across screens, and I think back to years ago, when the world began to get darker in a way that could be charted. We saw the headlines. We read the news. We heard the words spoken; “If you do not bow the knee, you deserve to die.”

The words weren’t straight from most voices; they were veiled, tucked into other things said, “bigot, fascist, hateful. You are what’s wrong with the world. You deserve whatever you have coming to you.”

And men began to stand up. Began to speak.

Because this is the country we are raising our children in. The country we love.

“Hard times call forth brave men.”

I am a Christian. “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His Only Son, our Lord…” I was was chosen before the foundations of the world, not for anything I have done or will do, but because of the grace of that Immortal God, and for His glory.

And I am an American by that same grace. In this country, we have freedoms, freedoms that should be and are appreciated by many. We can read God’s Word. We can sing in public of His goodness. We can fly our country’s flag and set off fireworks and we can speak publicly with one another. That right is protected. It has been, since our country began.

But these last few years?

That right has been challenged. And it isn’t by us.

We have been told that if we challenge the ideas that are being pushed and are not based in reality, we hate our neighbor.

That if we tell them of Christ, we despise them.

That if we call the unborn a child, that we are blinded by our upholding of what is wrong with America, namely, upholding the systemic hatred of women.

If valuing human lives—the lives of little humans still in the womb where they should be safest, the lives of little boys and girls made in the image of God—if that is wrong in the eyes of the world, then may we stand against the world and stand firmly. We are not called to be friends with them, anyway. “Friendship with the world is enmity with God.” But we are called to love them.

We love our neighbor when we speak the truth. The end of their ideology is death. Death to those that disagree with them. Death to the unborn. Death to the children who go through horrific surgeries to try and be someone they were never made to be. And death to all those who are fed by their lies into taking their own lives. There are so many people out there living non-lives today, because they do not know the Giver of Life, and are clinging to a maskil of death.

The end of their beliefs—the belief that we are what we say we are—is a lifeless existence, one that leads rapidly toward the grave.

Our suicide rates bear witness to that.

We tell our men they have no value, then wonder why they won’t stand up for what they believe in and why they feel worthless.

We tell our women that their value is in persecuting their families, and then wonder why so many of them are bitter, selfish, angry and selling their bodies out for glances on the streets.

Our children are being indoctrinated. Our homes are being infiltrated. And we have been standing idly by, too afraid to make a scene.

Today, I raise a call.

May you be bold to speak the truth, counting others as more worthy than yourself, that you may speak it with humility. May you, ‘do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.’ May you seek first His kingdom, and love Him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.

May our God raise up a generation that loves Him and loves their neighbor enough to speak the truth; fully, and un-minced. May we be that generation.

We need men of earnest conviction who are willing to lay down their lives for their God, their families, their country and their neighbor.

We need women who are willing to give up their wishes, offer up their lives as a joyful, willing sacrifice to care for those who are being led astray, and to defend the truth by our lives and by our hope and hospitality. That is one of the best witnesses we can offer, to be hospitable wherever we go, and by doing so show the grace of our Lord.  

We need children who love their homes, and love their God enough to seek His Word while they are yet young.

We need a church that is brave.

We failed, when we were called upon to say that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. The church lost the podium with the equal rights movement. It lost it again when feminism stood up, and we didn’t speak up to affirm and reject as we should.

Let’s take it back in our day.

Let’s speak for the truth, fight for our brother, and defend those who are being led astray.

We are called to be faithful all the days of our lives, with such time as the Lord gives us.

So, let’s use it to call America back to Christ. To raise families. To rejoice. To sing. To praise. And to stand firm and steadfast on the solid ground of the truth.

“Why do the nations rage and foolish peoples plot in vain?”

The Lord laughs at their plots. So, we have nothing to fear. Let us make a stand and keep our eyes heavenward, bowing the knee to our Lord and King, and keeping our backs straight and our heads bowed for the fight against the forces of darkness.

They have not prevailed.

They shall not today.

“We are called to be faithful all the days of our lives, with such time as the Lord gives us.”

May the Lord walk with you today.