Feeling Helpless?

No doubt you have heard that the IRS has recently admitted to targeting certain public advocacy groups. Using trigger words and phrases like “patriot” or “Tea Party,” some “low-level” IRS employees (ahem) took it upon themselves to single out applications for 501(c)3 status from recently-formed organizations created to defend our Constitution and traditional, historic, American political liberties.

As I look out across my own local landscape and circle of friends, and speak with others about the course and direction our American republic is currently on, I hear great concern and frustration—and in many, a sense of helplessness. Hold that thought.

The Tea Party movement, and others engaged in the quest to right our errant “Ship of State” have been excoriated by the mainstream press, painted as a bunch of radical, racist, bigoted, extremists. Racist? No. Bigoted? No. Extremists? No. Radical? Well maybe … that is if one considers the following definition of the word “radical.”

“of or going to the root or origin.”^1.

I would proudly consider myself a radical if by “radical” one means that I seek a return to the “roots” or “origins” of historic American political liberty.

I write today to report that there is absolutely no reason for millions of Americans—especially American Christians—to feel hopeless or helpless in the face of the fast-paced, sweeping tide of political tyranny that is rapidly encroaching on oh so many fronts. Two clear reasons come to mind.

1. Christ sits on His throne, busily establishing His kingdom and managing history. The Scriptures tell us that He prevails.

2. Each of us CAN make a difference. All we have to do is get engaged. America will be lost if most, as they are, continue to sit on the sidelines and whine and moan and complain about how bad things are and yet do nothing about it. But we do not have to remain silent.

Twenty-seven Tea Party-type groups had the courage to connect with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and stand up to the IRS. Because of their courage, we now have an acknowledgement and evidence of what we already suspected—that the IRS has indeed been targeting the conservative movement. And recent developments indicate that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

In the big scheme of things, Humanism, Marxism, Progressivism, Communism, Socialism have no future. The future belongs to Christ and His Church.

“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”

I Corinthians 3: 21-23

Jesus Christ is a lover of liberty. He came to set the captive free. Don’t shrink back. Engage in the fight.

^{1. radical. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved May 13, 2013, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/radical}