We Share the Blame
“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.” – Isaiah 42:6-7.
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” – Matthew 5:13.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn decried the sheep-like submission of the Russian people to Soviet thugs. If they had only done something, he wrote in the Gulag Archipelago, to show their disgust at the oppression, it could have been reduced. “[W]e didn’t love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! . . . We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Regretfully, Christians can understand the great Russian’s lament. We, too, stood idly by while spiritual miscreants stole the values we cherished and society respected. Now that those values are gone and vile ones are in their place, we complain bitterly.
Instead of rushing to submit, as the Russian people did to Bolshevism, Christians rushed to their church buildings, making attendance at services the standard of righteousness. By closing ourselves off from society, we made the unsettling discovery that since we failed to impress society with our values, unsaved people impressed it with theirs. Indeed, we deserve everything that has happened to us. However, we still possess the weaponry to storm Satan’s castles. If we will wage warfare with the spiritual weapons of prayer, preaching, and evangelism, we can bring renewal to our society.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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