Our American culture contains a sleeping giant. As this giant sleeps, ropes are being tossed and stakes are being driven. If the giant doesn’t wake up soon, it won’t matter whether it ever wakes up at all.
Christians are, by definition, followers of Christ and the Bible is God’s instructions to His creation. If we’re followers of Christ (God) then we should act according to what the Bible tells us is right or wrong. That’s what the instruction book is there for, to show us how to live our lives in the most beneficial manner for both us and our society. But those instructions are only valuable if we use them. You could know precisely when and where to invest your money, but it won’t do you any good unless you actually make the investment. Having the knowledge is useless without taking the action. The same is true with the Bible. Knowing God’s rules won’t benefit your life, you must act on that knowledge to reap the rewards.
It is estimated that 1-3% of our populace is homosexual and that 77% of our populace is Christian. So how is it that 3% of our populace is making laws that 77% of our populace disagrees with? It’s because the giant is still sleeping.
Christians all across this country know the Bible teaches against homosexuality as a lifestyle and yet we do nothing to stop the gay activists from getting their agenda taught in our schools, from convincing the populace that homosexuality is a biological state, and even from making laws allowing homosexuals into the church to marry. While the giant sleeps, the villagers run amuck.
How long? How long will we, the vast majority, allow this 3% of our populace to control our lives, dictate our thoughts, and decide what is right and what is wrong?
We Christians belong to God. Is our God so small that He can’t stand up against this 3%? Of course not. But we are His fingers. If the fingers won’t curl, the use of the hand is limited. We must act if we want God to do something. We are the instrument through which God shows Himself. We are His church, His representatives in this world. If we do nothing, then God, who acts through us, does nothing. He is willing to leave us in our own mess or help us out of it. But help implies something already in progress, something that can be aided. If we do nothing, God has nothing to assist.
There comes a time in every life when one must stand up and be heard. For Christians, that time is now. We are still One Nation Under God but we must now fight to keep it that way. God is not a god of the past, He’s a god of the future. He knows we can’t go back in time and correct the things we’ve done, but He also knows we can make right the things we do in the future. If you want to side with God on this topic, then tell your clergy, tell your mayor, tell your governor, congressman, and senator that you expect them to leave marriage as God designed it, between one man and one woman. Tell them it’s God’s way. Tell them your next vote depends on it. Tell them you’ll be watching. Be God’s representative and stand up for what He has defined as right and wrong.
Edmund Burke said: “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” So far, that’s what the church has done, nothing, and look at what’s happening around us. If 3% of our populace can have this big of an impact on our culture, imagine the impact 77% could make!
