At times it sounds like a small, incessant drip coming from a leaky faucet. I know it’s there, but I choose to ignore it.

At other times the sound is like the intensifying beat of war drums heard in a time gone by; it is too hard to ignore and it is calling me to step up to the plate and engage.

What is it that I am hearing?

It is the constant tug on my heart and this overriding thought – You have a voice and now is the time to use it.

Although the attribution is questioned it’s been said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Personally speaking, I do not want to hang my hat on this rack.

In his book, Letter to the American Church, Eric Metaxas states the following:

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.”

The tale of the tape over the past three years has been one most of us only imagined taking place in some third world country or in a fiction novel. The pace has been brutal and non-relenting. One thing after another. It has left us dulled, drained, and if we care to admit it, grasping for straws. In the spirit of landing this dreadful plane I can hear you shouting, “Enough is enough already”. It assuredly has been on my lips and in my thoughts.

In his book, Wild at Heart, John Eldredge pointedly declares, “We live in a world at war”.

His premise was to draw one’s attention to the fact than in life we are opposed by the relentless attempts by the enemy of our soul to derail us from all God meant for our lives to be.

I would like to take it a step further.

Indeed, we do live in a world at war and it has reached epic proportions. Without being overly dramatic, we have arrived at Omaha Beach and are about to engage in a decisive battle. Bullets are raining down upon us, the stakes are very, very high, and we are called toward a victory we can barely fathom.

No longer is it conservative versus liberal, Democrat versus Republican, nor any other This versus That.

The dividing lines of old have gone by the wayside and are no longer drawn historically. The game has changed and we can no longer rely on past impressions or experiences to guide us.

We are emphatically steeped in a battle of good versus evil whether we acknowledge it or not.

Tag me with being narrow minded, I do not care.

It is our time to engage. In a speech I recently heard, the speaker invited the audience to become part of the solution and not the problem.

Metaxas questions the silence of the American church (God’s people and not solely the institutional church) on a wide range of issues which we face.

He likens any silence to the cries of the Jews being muffled or drown out by the loud singing of nearby congregants in German churches as the boxcars transporting them to their deaths in concentration camps rolled by their godly edifices. In short, the prevailing thought was what I cannot hear I can ignore. After all, our job is to focus on God and ignore the plight of those around us in need. Instead of speaking up, silence was heard.

The choice before us requires us to speak up and to let our voice be heard like never before.

You and I have a voice and now, more than ever, is the time to use it.

One way of doing so is to exercise your duty to vote in the upcoming elections. If you choose not to vote, please do not complain down the road about the fallout. Choosing to participate and vote is like seed sown into the ground of our constitutional republic. It is a privilege which we get to exercise as we hold to the ideal of government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

It may be rendered as cliche, but as I already indicated, the stakes are high this time around. The choice before us is starkly contrasted like that of the noontime sun on a bright day or the darkness of an abyss.

Consider the following non-exhaustive list of question before us:

• What has brought us to the point of allowing the lives of innocent babies to be brutally murdered before they can draw their first breath or barbarically allow to die post-birth?
• When did medical tyranny in the form of forced experimental injections become the norm (which have cost people their livelihoods, injured countless lives, and have caused untold deaths)?
• How did we get to the point where various governmental agencies, at one time considered a refuge for the people, have been weaponized against them?
• Although the Bible warned us of such, how did we arrive on the shoreline of referring to evil as good and good as evil?
• Why are concerned parents now considered domestic terrorists when they speak out against the garbage introduced in the classrooms of America which attempt to sexually exploit their children?
• Who is imposing Critical Race Theory upon us, which seeks to divide us when we should be seeking the opposite?
• You can do the math or am I missing something? Each time I have checked it is quite apparent to me there are only two genders, male and female, and in the name of science it is evidenced by the chromosomal markers of XY and XX.
• What has brought us to the point of encouraging sex change operations openly being discussed with the youngest among us the targets? God help us.
• What qualifies drag queens to become librarians in charge of reading materials to our toddlers?
• Are you OK with biological boys using restrooms or locker rooms of girls and competing in the girls sporting events? I am the father of three grown daughters. Trust me, not on my personal watch.
• What school did a candidate for the Supreme Court attend when she could not adequately define what a woman is?
• Do we not have eyes to see the proverbial elephant in the room (no political pun intended) for the past two years as their is increasing evidence of our elections being compromised, stolen, and even under attack by foreign entities?
• Are we so dulled that we are ignorant of the corruption which exists at all levels of government? It is rampant and any attempt to bring it to light is silenced.
• What are we to do when inflation, a not-so-hidden tax, is eating away at the purchasing power of families?
• How did Big Tech companies and the media in general come to the point of silencing the populace?
• How are those $4 and higher gas prices helping your family budget, especially when we were on the road to energy independence?
• How long must we accept the obvious fact that we allegedly have someone in power who has a problem being coherent a majority of the time? It is a mockery of the land of the free and the home of the brave.
• In short, how did the crazies come to overrun the asylum?

I think I will stop here as my electronic rant has occupied enough of your time. I am not asking you to agree with me, only to consider the narrative to which we have been collectively subjected.

However, if you remotely share any or all of the touch points I listed out and want to do something about it, now is the time to acknowledge you have a voice and it is time to use it.

You and I can no longer afford to be silent. A good place to start this week is to make every effort to exercise your obligation to vote and while you are at it influence others to do the same.

I will leave you with this,

“What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord, whose people He has chosen as His inheritance.” Psalms 33:13 (NLT)

God bless America!

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