A Dismal Future?

A Dismal Future? by William Keller

VIOLENCE is all that is left.

When people disagree with each other, the first step undertaken in a civil society is to debate the opposing ideas to endeavor to persuade the disagreeing parties to your viewpoint.

The next step is for opponents to simply try to silence each other to assure their beliefs are the only ones people hear.

After debate and silence, there is really only one avenue left ... VIOLENCE!

Currently in our nation, we no longer debate political differences. We are in a period of silencing those we disagree with as evidenced by the recent testimony of the ultra wealthy, liberal CEOs of Facebook and Twitter before Congress as to why their companies had censored conservative posts on social media.

We started down this road during the eight years of the Obama administration when half the nation rejected what they felt were anti-US policies being enacted. It became even more intense the morning after Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President.

Those who opposed his election decided even before he took office that they would take whatever measures necessary to damage his presidency. Their goal was to render Trump unable of accomplishing the conservative goals he had promised. When that was not as effective as his liberal opponents had hoped, they went even further in their attempt to undo the president and his policies by impeaching him and attempting to remove him from office.

I hope I'm wrong, but the only place left to go is civil unrest and VIOLENCE--and we have certainly seen that alternative in our streets in 2020.

Inevitably, a nation that has rejected God uses only worldly means to advance its agenda, and that has usually been accomplished through VIOLENCE!

Can people of faith avert this trend? Can people of faith steer the course of the nation along a better path?

God's WORD has a plausible answer to those questions in II Chronicles 7:14 -- "If MY people, who are called by MY name, will humble themselves and pray and seek MY face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land."

May people of faith bind together in humility and pursuit of the Holy One; may people of faith repent of their sin and seek the Lord's forgiveness.

May those who are called by His name beseech Him for a Third Great Awakening, for only spiritual revival can ultimately save our land.