Do you ever feel dumb? Sometimes I do. But Jesus said, “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” (Luke 16:8 ) He also said, “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16) The Lord closed His thought with the injunction not to be dumb sheep but instead wise, even wise as snakes. Clearly, it’s not that the Lord wants us to just be ignoramuses.
But some people want to portray us as uneducated, bigoted, racist dummies. Sadly, at times they are able to do that because some Christians just default to simplistic, under-educated clichés or sound bites. And they sadly are prone to being uncharitable towards folks who are not of their race, background, nationality or education. Let’s face it, this happens. And it shouldn’t.
Things are very serious now. Incredible battles are being waged in local school board meetings across America where the forefront of cultural/spiritual battles are being waged for the future of the children and grandchildren of this nation. Astonishing inroads have been made into the curricula of public schools to where books that are just gorged with filth
and infested with perverse indoctrination are freely available to elementary school kids in school libraries, as well as being put forward by some teachers.
It’s not a time to default to dummy-ism. If you study history, you’ll know that there’ve been some extremely smart Christians over the centuries who’ve championed the cause of Christ in the secular world and have helped to turn the tide of evil in their day.
A few days ago I saw a movie that really spoke to me, maybe you’ve seen it. It is called “Amazing Grace” and it is the story of William Wilberforce who was an implacable foe of the devil and fought for the love of God and the liberty of African slaves 200 years ago in Great Britain. It’s a tremendous movie and really spoke to my heart.
Is there ever a time when a fully dedicated, consecrated Christian who is seeking first the kingdom of God should take his efforts into what could be considered the political sphere?
Wilberforce deeply struggled with this question. But his friend, the future Prime Minster of Britain, William Pitt the younger, was instrumental in persuading Wilberforce to use his considerable speaking talents and his passion to champion the cause of the ending of the slave trade in the British parliament.
It is an amazing movie and an amazing story, probably very seldom told in secular modern education since it so much glorifies the truth of God and those who follow it. I do recommend it, especially at this time when Christian values are being overwhelmed by “identity politics” and so-called “Progressivism” which is working successfully as a carnivorous beast to destroy Christian values as fast as it can across most of the Western world.
If ever there was a time for parents to stand up, and grandparents, against the forces that are successfully proselytizing and seeking to convert our children and grandchildren openly in public schools across the supposedly advanced world, it is now.
But you’re going to have to be sharp. They are. And they will eat your lunch if you let them. If you haven’t done your homework and are just pratering away with weak platitudes about “the Left”, “the Communists” or things like that, they’ll make a fool of you and utterly defeat you in the realm of public discourse. And this is important because all kinds of people have not made up their minds.
No, everyone has not already made their decision. Multitudes are heart-stricken by what’s going on in public schools. But they need to be informed of the facts without being forced to join one camp or the other on the political left or right.
It’s a great time for those who’ve spent years in the struggle for the cause of Christ to recognize this fight that’s presently raging. It doesn’t at all have to be a matter of “Left’ verses “Right”. I strongly resist being labeled that way.
But when it comes to our poor children who are being indoctrinated with perversion in public elementary schools and then they are told to not tell their parents about it, this is outrageous . And it seems to me it needs the intervention of seasoned veterans of the cross to enter the fray and fight for the survival of our children and grandchildren, right in our own nation, states and cities.
Yes, completely true. each country or region needs another Martin Luther, that great priestly fellow who turned the Roman church on its heels.
We Christian’s can be used to do something similar!
Every area of the world need’s this.
I understand the message here and in regards to our children’s education it is imperative that people stand up against the devil’s devices in the school system. “We shall speak to magistrates”. But in the overall political picture lately,, can we really stop the flow of evil that is happening all around us? “Evil doers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived”. We Are living in the last days and things Will get worse before they get better. We can go in God’s spirit as Jeremiah did and hope for the best, but the wheels of God’s Judgements are still slowly turning and it seems too late for repentance for the world I see today. We can still win the world one heart at a time so seek out the lonely and the hungry and God bless those that can do more.
I understand your point and do agree that in the big picture things are moving toward the final events, mentioned in Bible prophecy. But when the local schools a few miles away are opening their gates to allow in the most vile and immoral literature that specifically targets young children, attempting to recruit them into an adversarial camp, I feel that parents and concerned citizens should not just resign themselves to their children being, for all intents and purposes, stolen and indoctrinated into such disgusting darkness.
I was talking with my daughter about this the other day. She lives in a small place far from big cities and is studying to become an educator. The kids in the local schools are nowhere near as unruly as what you hear about in the big cities, but still of a very different mentality than when we were students.
Many parents are both working (or single) and have to abandon their kids to the school system, to TV and Internet entertainment which is filling their heads with garbage. It’s infesting the whole World, even in isulated small comunities on the far corners of our planet.