The Last Hill Left to Die On

Wake up, gentlemen.

It won’t be long before it starts surging over the top of the dam. When that happens, you won’t be able to just shut your door and ignore it any more. It’ll quickly invade every part of your home—and your life.

But it’s not like you didn’t see it coming.

You were just hoping it’d go away or that maybe somebody else might come up with a plan to ward off the septic mixture of corruption, immorality, perversion and lawlessness that’ll soon be flowing rampantly in the streets.

It’s too bad you didn’t have the guts to put your foot down, though.

Remember?

When your public school system began testing the waters to see who would object to teaching about and encouraging homosexual behavior among your children, you said, “Well…I’m not so sure we should be doing this.”

And when the school boards decided to appropriate tax dollars to fund programs to enlighten your children and the community to the notion that boys could become girls and girls could become boys if they so desired, you said, “Well, that’s ridiculous…”

But you didn’t say no.

In fact, most fathers couldn’t even to find the time to show up at the school district’s board meetings to express any anger over what was happening. But there were plenty of mothers present whose pleas were arrogantly dismissed.

You didn’t even have sense enough to watch out for yourself.

Because when your state’s regulators and legislative body realized they could siphon off more revenue by legalizing illegal marijuana for recreational use, you said, “Aah…no big deal, I used to smoke some pot.”

You chose to ignore the data that verifies the harmful physical and mental effects of marijuana over time—but more importantly, how the noxious consequences of legalization has eroded the moral fabric of our communities.

Maybe you aren’t actually a pothead, but you’ve been thinking like one.

Because you couldn’t find a reason to be outraged about “health-care professionals” murdering unborn children either. Nor did you and any other male guardians dare come together with a loud voice to insist that your elected officials enforce the unalterable civil statutes which were designed by God to protect them.

Your subtle acceptance of the social malignancy of cohabitation speaks volumes about how little you respect the sacred institution of marriage that God created for us. You caved in to the popular opinion that financial security and actual obedience to Christ’s commands are hardly compatible. You accepted the convenient lie that a legally binding covenant between a man and a woman is merely a formality that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Remember the credible evidence of electoral corruption and ignorance demonstrated at every level of governance a couple of years ago? Your response was pathetic: “Hey, wait a minute…I don’t think they should be able to get a way with that…”

As one of God’s authorized image-bearers who was created to both rule and subdue the Earth, why haven’t you, along with other courageous fathers, demanded [and verified] that integrity be restored to your county’s election process—and everything else, for that matter?

Is it because someone has convinced you that showing a little more love and tolerance in the face of evil will transform you into a more realistic image of Jesus—one your family and the world will like a lot more?

Way to go.

Your children and grandchildren are watching you very closely. And, just in case you were too stoned to notice, they’re establishing moral parameters for making sound decisions based on those observations—just like you did.

When did you abandon the ones you’d once established?

Don’t get me wrong, you’re all for goodness, propriety and justice. The problem is, you refuse to allow any testosterone remaining in your body to eliminate the chronic idleness which enslaves you.

You vacillate between apathy and cowardice. You stay at home with the kids while your wife and a few of her friends take the time to go scold the reprobates sitting on the local school board, or representing you in the state legislature, or to confront any other moral atrocity threatening your community.

It’s time to man up and start throwing sandbags on the dam. If you don’t, you’re not gonna have a chance to prevail over the things you’ve seen coming—let alone destroy them.

Because, once they get over the top, they’re just more water under the bridge.

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man is he who listens to counsel.” [Prov. 12:15]