STAND FOR SOMETHING

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

We live in a day and time when it seems that nobody stands for anything. I came from a time when almost everybody I knew stood up for what he or she believed in. People had character and guts. They knew what they believed and they were willing, if necessary, to die for what they stood for. I know many who do not like what they see coming out of Hollywood, the universities and colleges. They don’t like the fact that the name of God cannot even be mentioned in these places without ridicule and in some cases breaking the law. Abortionists are killing babies by the millions, the definition of marriage is being changed and we are rapidly becoming a socialistic nation. But not many are willing to stand up against these things.

Consider the words of Winston Churchill as he spoke with passion and conviction to the English people in the dark summer of 1940: "Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known or cared for, will sink in to the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.’

And finally reflect on the words of pastor Martin Niemoller: "In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up became I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."

I cry out, in the name of heaven STAND FOR SOMETHING!