When you see some travesty, error, cruelty or sin do you remain silent?  What is the reason for not speaking out against some crime or wickedness?  Are you afraid of man?  Are you concerned about how it will affect your standing with your peers in society?  Do you care at all, or perhaps believe that it is not your job to speak out against injustice?  Are you reverent of God at all?

Do you share your opinion regarding the dangerous or corrosive direction that society is headed?  Do you criticize our leaders for their inappropriate, wrong, misguided or ill intentioned decisions and action?  If you criticize others after the fact then you are a complacent hypocrite, unwilling to take a stand prior to the circumstance evolving.

Currently the education, media and governmental agencies are proliferated by those of liberal philosophy because they took the time to gradually overwhelm these agencies in a concerted effort to control, guide, infuse and dominate knowledge sharing and thought.  In other words they “proactively” committed to addressing the issues by changing opinions, belief and subsequent action.  If you are not willing to take a stance in advance of moral decay then you cannot complain after the decline has reached full speed.  We, believers in a Holy God have stood on the sidelines allowing the decay of our national standing and moral practices, unwilling to take a stand against the encroachments that have destroyed societies throughout the ages.  Yet we are more than willing to criticize everyone else willing to take a stand for what they believe.  Do we believe what we preach so little that unlike liberals we are completely unwilling to take a committed stand to see our ideals reviewed and accepted.  Do we fear God at all?

Lying, sodomy, abortion, greed, covetousness, violence, robbery, disrespect to God and elders, forgotten orphans and widows, war, sickness, divorce, open sexuality and oppression of the poor, these are the subjects we should have stood against but have instead sat on our comfy couches gluttonous, happy and content in worldly possessions.  That is not the objective of truth.  I hear pastors crying out for prophets who will unashamedly offer up their lives to the proclamation of God’s word.  Why?  That job is ours as ambassadors of Christ.  Should I now ask God to provide men of valor and courage because we have forsaken our duty as the representatives, saved and sent for that purpose?  Speaking the truth, telling of coming judgment and the Good News of the Gospel is our job.  I cannot ask God to do what He has already commanded me to do.  Do I feel the need to obey God at all?

We have been given the opportunity to surrender our lives to the Work of God or be disobedient and investigate our own plans and pursuits.  Reviewing the Bible, sitting on the sidelines has never been a good choice on the list of options.  Those who sit on the sidelines either get caught in the middle of the war or become complicit prostitutes to either side trying to benefit from feeding the needs of either philosophy while remaining neutral.  Neutrality is simply another word for disobedient, and worse yet it lacks the courage to take a stand for what you believe.  I will not aid the enemy in his pursuits to separate man from God by remaining neutral when I should be standing and letting God fight through me.  I revere, fear and obey God even to the point it costs me every worldly thing.

We know what is coming.  If we are now not willing to prepare our hearts, our children and our lands for God’s prophetic occurrences then we should not criticize those who are willing to stand for what they believe.  Man is not my enemy, the forces behind the illusion are the true opposition and to defeat them requires we speak “The Truth”.  Speak up, speak out, take a stand because this victory has already been secured.  To God be the Glory, honor and praise.  In Jesus’ name.