Step Up

As my country slouches into a corporatist tyrannical banana republic, destroying half the world's wealth as it spins into decline, I won't sit by and say nothing. Men stand. Women stand. Cowards don't. History is inconvenient. Life will come to an end sometime for all of us. How will you respond to both? In willful ignorance and fear? Or boldness and standing up for truth and what is good? Just living your life ignoring what is happening condemns future generations to a forming dystopic techno dark age. Your life's path tells creation who you are, not your intentions. Man up and take your spot on the wall. Start pushing back, peacefully, legally, but loudly!!!!! If you don't some day your descendants, if you are lucky enough to have any, will wonder why you didn't....if they even retain the cognitive ability to understand their plight, as even that might be taken from them ...STAND UP AND PUSH BACK AGAINST CORRUPTION!!!!!

It is a time for heroes.  Will you be one?  There are cost associated with being a hero in time, effort, and blow back.  Right now it is relatively easy in this society to criticize elites, take stands, protest, talk openly about politics.  But EVERYTHING is being tracked...if not enough of us stand those who do some day in the future may be marginalized, categorized, threat assessed, persecuted, and perhaps even one day face prison time or extermination.  Now is the time to stand in mass while it is easy.  In the future it may not be so.  Count the cost.  But remember the cost of hiding and pretending, although not as immediate, is often much higher than the cost of standing for righteousness.

"What we do in life echos for eternity."  Your life is now.  Become more than a footnote in the pages of God's history book. 

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  We aren't brave, but this is where we aim, and in God's strength provided in His Son maybe we can be the heroes God is looking for to stand firm and hold back the growing tide, even if just by a little bit or by a lot.