Briefly, I just want to encourage you to make sure you are giving prayerful time and attention to your Bibles and your families. In these tumultuous days, the news feeds, and opinion pieces can be addictively consuming, and our impact in those areas is relatively low. Put your energy where you can make a difference:
- your own soul in personal devotions;
- your spouse, as married folks;
- your children, as parents;
- your siblings and friends, as young people
Work on building a positive, faithful Christian outlook in your home and among your friends, more than we analyze and criticize a society going haywire. Sing together! Pray together. Cultivate edifying conversation.
I'm not saying we should stick our heads in the sand, culture-engagement-wise. We want to know what is going on, to prepare ourselves and our children mentally and spiritually for the kinds of attacks we will face. But we fight hostility with joy. We fight an embrace of wickedness with love of righteousness. The main thing is not to defeat a liberal agenda in CHAZ/CHOP or an anti-Biblical agenda in Lansing or DC, though that is an end goal. The main thing is to remain faithful in our lives, families, schools, and churches first.
May God us the grace to hear His Word, and conform our lives fully to it.
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