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…”And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.” Esther 4:14 Every time I’ve ever read the story of the good Samaritan it always occurred to me that the most diabolical character in the story was the priest, who walked by the injured and left him bleeding and broken. Did he walk by because he didn’t want to be inconvenienced? Did he walk by because he felt ill equipped; or did he simply walk by because he didn’t want to be bothered? For us to say that he did nothing is incorrect. In fact, he did do something. He walked away.
Philosopher, John Stuart Mill, stated: “Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he Choicesoftheheart.com can do no harm if he takes no part or forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass
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their ends than, that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” About a week ago I read a Life Site News* blog concerning organ harvesting practices at the University of Pittsburgh. The University under scrutiny by the media specifically, Fox News admitted that they received millions of federal tax dollars for the tissue bank that harvested organs from aborted babies. Pitt admitted these fetal organs are often collected while the unborn are still alive! It’s sickened me. I cried out to God for mercy on us as a country for allowing it to get this far but even more for mercy on us as a church for being complicit by being silent. In a day and age when we are being told what we can say and how we can say it; it seems like now we are more careful than ever about being politically correct. In fact, I have had concerns expressed by donors that we as a ministry not venture into politics with our events or in our messaging. That has now fully blossomed into not being permitted to talk. Let’s be clear, politics and government are two completely different things. We must make our voices heard within government. If the church does not speak against a government’s tyranny or totalitarianism who will?
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Queen Esther didn’t just speak. She fasted and prayed before approaching the King about the annihilation of her people. Her own head was on the line. Her strategy was laser focused. Prayer and fasting first and then boldness comes! “Do not eat or drink for 3 days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.” Esther 4:16 My brothers and sisters, we live in perilous times. Hold fast to the only truth which prevails, the word of God. The promises in Psalm 91 are foundational to understanding what God seeks. He seeks those who abide with Him. He who dwells in the secret place will abide under the shadow of the Almighty” Psalm 91:1 That’s a day in day out relationship. Find your home, like Esther, in your prayer closet. Then, our Father, who is faithful and merciful will give you the strength and the boldness to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Rescue those being led away to death. Hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say we knew nothing of this, does not He who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He who guards your life know it? Will He not repay everyone for what they have done? Proverbs 24:11
Rita Reyes Executive Director
*lifesitenews.com Johnathan Van Maren 08/06/21