I’ve observed a few things recently that draw very mixed emotions. If you know who I’m referring to, please don’t mention it because my goal is not to call anyone out. It is simply to discuss what I observe around me. I’m certain other Christians feel the same kind of emotional struggle at times.

I saw one blogger who is taking a break from technology for a month. She is quite a bit older than me and is purposefully living as though it is the 1930s. This is a choice she and her husband make and they enjoy learning about that time period. It brings them comfort. She has made the choice to turn off the online world for a month and many other readers are joining her to various degrees.

Another blogger I saw confidently stated that we have no calling or responsibility to do anything that will make our country “great again” because that is not for us as Christians. The only country that will ever be great is Israel and only Jesus Christ can do that when He returns. We are, therefore, to only do things that involve sharing the Gospel, spending time with other believers, and hurrying the “Rapture.”

Sometimes I wish I believed I had the freedom to retreat from the world and the battle.

In the first circumstance, I can certainly understand the appeal. I even contemplated what I could do to participate in a limited way. That simply isn’t possible with my life at the moment. We use online for homeschooling, business, and personal connections. For better or worse, technology is part of life today. To wish it away or pretend otherwise doesn’t work.

And even if I could do it, I’m not sure I should do it.

I also struggle with the idea of living in the past which seems for many women to be an escape and way to cope with the intensity and complexity of our world. This has been a popular movement for at least the past thirty years. I can see how it brings comfort when women are overwhelmed by the world in which we find ourselves.

I enjoy learning about history and reading Little House books as much as the next woman. But God put me here, now. To wish it differently and pretend differently doesn’t sit right with me.

In the second circumstance, my Christian faith does not allow me to retreat from the battlefield as much as I might want to do so some days. While some Christians believe we are not to be involved with the affairs of men, I cannot find that in the Bible. The retreating piety pushed by many Christian leaders in recent decades has done great harm to the church and, therefore, our country.

Even the Amish have realized that their involvement matters and have started voting in greater numbers. The only reason they have been left alone to do their own thing for decades was because other Americans were willing to give them that freedom and fight for them to have it.

The freedom the Amish have enjoyed for so long in the USA wasn’t free. Many people sacrificed to provide it for them. Likewise, it can be taken away by people who don’t respect them or their beliefs. The Amish appear to have realized that their active participation in their country matters. Their ability to do their own thing in peace may be guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, but that doesn’t mean wicked men and women in elected positions won’t work diligently to strip them of that right.

As the quote by Pericles goes, “Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”

And, as you would likely surmise if you’ve read this blog for more than a few weeks, I disagree with the idea that our purpose on earth as Christians is to basically hang on and exist until something called the Rapture happens so Israel and the Jews can be annihilated while the raptured Christians are partying with Christ in heaven. I think that is a belief that has been weaponzied to make the Body of Christ weak, disinterested, and ineffective.

So there are days when I wish I could leave the battlefield. There are nights I go to bed wishing I could just mothball everything I’ve done online and start from scratch. I felt that way last night. To have the freedom to set up a new online life that I can carefully curate from the beginning to make it only what I want it to be now rather than the complicated behemoth I have created here over the past 20+ years.

To have the freedom to pretend that the complicated world swirling around us doesn’t exist.

But the only reason I have what I have now is because others in the past gave up their comfort.

The only reason our children and grandchildren will have anything in the future is because we choose to give up some of our comfort today. We choose to keep fighting today so they will have a better tomorrow.

I choose each day to set aside some things I might wish to do in order to do things I believe are more important.

Too many passive Christians are living comfortably on the fumes of past sacrifices made by men and women just like us.

And we have come dangerously close to losing it all.

Even the Amish have sensed it.

So today I will post more things that I wish I didn’t have to. I will continue to warn people about the very real threats we face as a nation.

I will even discuss forbidden topics such as the systematic attempt to eliminate White people from the face of the earth.

Why?

Because even when I go to bed wishing I could post only about happy and cozy topics, I know deep down inside that the battle requires the engagement of every Christian who realizes what we are up against.

To do anything else would be dereliction of duty.

And I won’t leave my post.