When we think it is normal for a 4-year-old boy to ask to be transgendered to a girl and the parents think this is reasonable, I think we are living in madness. When our public-school boards think it is a good idea to allow drag queens to read stories to our 8-year-old children in the public elementary school library, I think we have entered into madness.
Philosophical systems and political theories ultimately impact and infect people. Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930: "Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society."
This was a prescient insight. However, it is not simply the social perversion plan of a socialist. We must remember that behind it is the god of this world and that the whole world lies in the lap of this evil one. Understand who the real enemy is. It is the serpent of old, it is the evil one of today. It is the devil. The Christian battle today, as it has been every day, is with rulers, principalities and powers and against spiritual forces.
The apostle Paul reminded the church of his day, and it is no less true today, that we are to redeem the times for the days are evil. This is truly a timeless truth. But here is another one from Victor Hugo about his book Les Misérables;
"The book ... is ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God.”
This is ultimately true of the Bible as well. It is the meta narrative and the story of everything. And although we find ourselves in troubling and perhaps terrible times, it is not how the story ends. And although it is difficult to be heard, “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” The great commission has not been rescinded. We are still to make disciples by evangelizing the lost and educating the saved.
As Hugo reminds us, "Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
Serving Him with you, until He comes for us.
Fred
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