Last week I talked about the time America seemed like a foreign country, especially to Vietnam veterans. Everything we had known up to that point in our lives seemed to be turned upside down. The hippie movement brought sex, drugs, and rock and roll into the everyday conversation.
We were admonished to “hate the man,” whoever the “man” happened to be. Law enforcement were called “pigs” by the Radical Left. There was also the black power movement, the Symbionese Liberation Army — remembered for kidnapping Patty Hearst of the Hearst publishing dynasty — the Weather Underground, and others. Bombings and robberies seemed all too common.
The Vietnam War finally came to a conclusion after the politicians who got us into the war decided to abandon our allies in Southeast Asia, resulting in a communist bloodbath with millions murdered or starved to death. It seems the domino effect that we were warned about and that the Left dismissed was a real thing. Forty-six years later, the “Fall of Saigon” was repeated in Afghanistan.
Then came President Ronald Reagan, who brought “Morning to America.” It was okay to love your country again. But good things always come to an end. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden did their level best to bring America to its knees. An avalanche of progressive/socialist policies were enacted, such as open borders and the weaponization of our justice system.
Today, we have a Democrat Party that stands for the 20% of things that 80% of the country voted against. Just like Biden’s track record of being wrong on every major foreign policy issue for 50 years, the Democrats fight for illegal aliens, homosexual and transgender deviancy, and freeloaders living off taxpayers’ hard-earned money. I’m getting tired just thinking about it. Maybe we’re supposed to feel that way?
Thankfully, this planet in not really my home. I’m a child of Heaven, not this small speck of a planet in a vast solar system that defies explanation. The Apostle Paul sums it up for us: “For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 3:20)
Think about it. Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars. Pestilence. Famines. Droughts. Brothers hating brothers. Families divided. Violence. Drugs. Sex trafficking. Children being mutilated for a warped ideology. All of this can dull the senses if we’re not careful. Like I said, though, we’re only passing through this life, moving toward the next one.
That doesn’t, however, mean that we should just hunker down and hold on until Jesus comes or we die, whichever comes first. I’m not the kind of person who can just sit around and do nothing while evil continues to thrive in our world. Someone once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
I’m in the fourth quarter of this life. I refuse to waste however many years I might have left. I want my legacy to be that I invested in the next generation of leaders. I want to spend my time with those the Lord is raising up to be world-changers.
I didn’t wait for them to come and find me. My wife and I went and found them. We spend our time now encouraging this generation to believe they can make a difference and teaching them how to fight the good fight!
So, don’t just throw up your hands and think that nothing will change. The God I serve and know is recruiting a few good men and women to take the fight to the god of this world. I’ve read the Book; we win!
Something to believe in.
Semper Fidelis
