What Price?

"....questions were not for the lowly." (From "Across Five Aprils" - a story about the Civil War)

And they still are not. Where are the courageous ones today?

As I concluded reading "Across Five Aprils" to my son today, I saw spiritual parallels in today's climate within The Church. President Lincoln had hoped to restrict the evils of slavery to the region of the South. He attempted to quell it by methods of ignoring and containing it; hoping by these methods, it would simply die out over time. As he came to understand such thinking was naive, for evil has no boundary if truth does not stand up against it.

Are we so naive in The Body of Christ as to think the evils that we see at play among us are containable or ignorable in our silence and lack of action, too?

President Lincoln endured, along with the nation, a horrible time in American history. Thousands were lost upon the battlefields. Childhoods disappeared, never to be lived. Yet he signed his full name, an act that was out of the ordinary, to the Emancipation Proclamation on December 31, 1862 saying, "If my name ever goes into history, it will be for this act."

What will your whole name, your whole being, be signed to -- be known for? Will you leave a sizable mark upon the battlefield of history such that those who come after you will know you stood for something of value? Or will you slip silently away with fields not plowed, seeds not sown, and your voice not heard?

Yes, questions are not for the lowly.... and Truth awaits its soldiers.

There is a price to be paid for fighting, but there is a greater price to be paid for silence.

You will pay a price....... Question is which one will it be?

For me, there is only one Truth worth dying for, and I pray most sincerely God grants me the fortitude to go out of this world fighting for it. If I am to be known for anything tomorrow, may it be that I sought Truth and stood to defend It today.

Convicted to the core,
Deborah