Too Afraid to Speak Out
And yet spoken words are the key.
Sometimes some people end up deciding, for one lame reason or another, that they are special in a very special way.
Somewhere along the line they swallowed and digested a lie that went right to the center of their souls. It was like a virus that took over their good thoughts. They stopped believing in the importance of loving and caring for others as we should love and care for ourselves, and replaced this with the twisted idea that they are God’s gift to humanity.
Some cults and secret societies teach things like this.
The net result is the formation of people who are completely comfortable enslaving others for their own benefits.
This can be on the micro level with an abusive husband, wife, or child that damages and sometimes destroys families from within.
Or it can be on the macro level where people take over the levers of power in corporations, schools, churches, governments, or at its most destructive to the most people, as dictators and tyrants.
When ordinary people find themselves being intimidated, the first thing that seems to go are words. They become afraid to speak out; to oppose the vocal minority. They are cowed into silence. Eventually they can shut down even their own thoughts in fear and then end up telling themselves lies about who they themselves are and what is really right and wrong.
The interesting thing when we study history is that often entire nations built on intimidation and deceit begin to crumble and fall when the silent, solitary, and apparently powerless few in the world’s eyes begin to speak truth for the sake of love.
True words can bring down strongholds. And these true words, once spoken, can awaken the silent majority.
All of a sudden everything can change.
Our faith, made up of words we have come to trust more than life itself, is what God uses to change us first — and then the world.
