Post by Daniel on May 5, 2015 8:03:00 GMT -5
by Belle Ringer
May 2, 2015
Like many of you, I look around and there is not much to lift my spirits. I hardly recognize my country, or the world, for that matter. I often feel as if I am the only sane person left. I'm on the outside, looking in at the insane asylum!
Where I once felt a part of a community of people with common social values and responsibilities, I now find myself marginalized, along with those who reason as I do. I haven't changed ... the world has! So how am I (we) to cope? What are our options? Do we give in to the cultural war against moral conservatism? Or do we continue to stand for our beliefs, strengthening those concepts against the rising tide of public opposition and antagonism?
Let's face it. It appears as if we are on the losing side in the world's march towards libertine tendencies. Everything from our politics, to the way we are educating our children, to how we entertain ourselves -- the world is promoting sex without moral principles and responsibilities, while roundly rejecting accepted religious opinions. What can I -- one person who expresses herself daily to a small readership -- possibly do to counter the trend towards normalizing immorality? I don't really think that I am going to be able to change the steamroller that is crushing the foundations of righteous conduct, do I?
And I will admit that there are days that I feel the weight of trying to fight "the system" and the culture. I want to retreat and shelter in the shadow of my God and ask Him to just cover me and my loved ones until this all rights itself, or until His Son comes to dispense His Judgment on the wicked ... either one will be fine; I am just tired of being confronted with all the negative headlines and seeing no way out.
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www.salvationandsurvival.com/2015/05/i-grow-weary-but-my-spirit-is-strong.html
May 2, 2015
Like many of you, I look around and there is not much to lift my spirits. I hardly recognize my country, or the world, for that matter. I often feel as if I am the only sane person left. I'm on the outside, looking in at the insane asylum!
Where I once felt a part of a community of people with common social values and responsibilities, I now find myself marginalized, along with those who reason as I do. I haven't changed ... the world has! So how am I (we) to cope? What are our options? Do we give in to the cultural war against moral conservatism? Or do we continue to stand for our beliefs, strengthening those concepts against the rising tide of public opposition and antagonism?
Let's face it. It appears as if we are on the losing side in the world's march towards libertine tendencies. Everything from our politics, to the way we are educating our children, to how we entertain ourselves -- the world is promoting sex without moral principles and responsibilities, while roundly rejecting accepted religious opinions. What can I -- one person who expresses herself daily to a small readership -- possibly do to counter the trend towards normalizing immorality? I don't really think that I am going to be able to change the steamroller that is crushing the foundations of righteous conduct, do I?
And I will admit that there are days that I feel the weight of trying to fight "the system" and the culture. I want to retreat and shelter in the shadow of my God and ask Him to just cover me and my loved ones until this all rights itself, or until His Son comes to dispense His Judgment on the wicked ... either one will be fine; I am just tired of being confronted with all the negative headlines and seeing no way out.
continue reading
www.salvationandsurvival.com/2015/05/i-grow-weary-but-my-spirit-is-strong.html
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