Opus 2025-530: You Pick, part 2 of 2

Now, how do we go about change?  There’s a lot of unhappy people out there today and many of them are advocating violence.  We saw this in the murder of Charlie Kirk.  We see it in the riots and destruction caused by Antifa.  It’s considered quite acceptable by certain people to kill and destroy in order to achieve political power.  I personally think that they know they can never really win, at least in the United States, but they can achieve victory by provoking people on the other side to respond in the same manner.  That leads to Civil War, which is a form of revolution that overthrows the power structure by force.  The historic results of this type of approach are dismal.  The solution is usually worse than the cause.  The American revolution was the exception to the rule.  The French revolution was much more typical.

Then you have reform.  This is the gradual process of bringing about change.  Sometimes we see big steps forward.  I think of the battle of William Wilberforce and his allies to end slavery in the English empire.  He fought for 30 years before he saw the first movement.  It is possible to change things.  The problem is that most of the time the change ends up being for the worse.  Think of how we did away with senators being appointed by the state legislature and made it a popular vote.  That has not gone well.  We think of the income tax.  It was going to be a very small amount of money.  How is that treating you now?

And then we have revival.  This of course, has that religious aspect, which is familiar to Bible believing Christians.  I think if we went back in history, you would find that there were times when Israel went through revivals.  I think of King Josiah as he found the book of the law and tried to turn the country back towards God.  I think of the Wesley revival which saved England from a similar fate that France went through from its revolution.  I’m sure there are other examples.  This would be my choice as the direction we should go.  I, as a Christian ,would feel that this would require God’s people to get serious about being God’s people.

Which way will our country go?  The frightening thing to me is that I don’t see what used to be the Christian church standing up and confessing their sins.  I don’t see them being willing to repent.  But then revival often starts under the radar and takes time to develop.

Hind sight tells us how it went last time.  Foresight is an illusion.  All we have is hope.  If you are a believing Christian pray and live in obedience.  If you are not a believer then you better hope that the ones who are have the ear of God.

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