Activism’s Fatal Flaw

Activism ignores the God of the Bible.

This works itself out into two related lies. First, they deny that God is who He says He is. The second is only logical: That He does not act as He promised. As we all know, there is a third inherent falsehood about the nature of reality, which is the foundation of the whole problem we have.

Once we discard Western epistemology, we can discard with it the false morality. We have no moral obligation to engage the world the way current activists do, including the entire range of so-called Christian activists.

Instead, we have a moral obligation to absorb into our awareness God’s revealed moral character. We are obliged to trust Him for a large range of things that impinge on our lives. He holds the cards in His hands and seldom shows any of that playing hand to anyone. When He does show us anything, it requires we first have a faculty for receiving and processing on a level above the intellect. We have to use His moral logic and consider in our hearts what matters most before He will explain what we should expect in concrete reality.

There is virtually nothing we can do to change other people. If we are determined in our hearts that there must be a change, then the primary route is through prayer. We so seldom try genuine group prayer righteously because most prayer meetings assume a Western morality in the first place. I have yet to see a genuine prayer meeting that isn’t deeply infested with Westernized religion. So far as I know, we have yet to try a genuine biblical prayer gathering.

I’d like to encourage my readers to consider that even a virtual prayer meeting will work, but we first have to learn a lot more about prayer. That is, we have to spend more time doing it individually and really getting to place where we become convinced there is a meeting with Our Creator, not just some forlorn crying out to some deity who may not be paying attention. I have no way of gauging how many of you seriously connect with God, but I can assure you that I do. The proof is in the radical changes He brings into my life, things I would never have dreamed up on my own. There are no secrets here that I can pass on to you. I suppose if you spent time with me personally you could absorb some of it, but the power of prayer comes only with your personal investment in it.

Here’s an experiment: Commit yourself to praying for divine justice. Pray that it starts with your own life and be ready to sacrifice things you might now hold dear. Be ready for the most radical changes. It takes only a little of that before you begin to understand just what makes a proper concern for bringing to God’s attention.

Pastoral counseling can help you with your internal bondages that hold you back. However, you first have to understand that the problem is not God nor prayer, but your own limitations. It’s more than just the curse of the Fall, but includes all the individual contextual variations that afflict each of us. I won’t claim to be free of them, but I can rejoice that the power is working in ways I never expected. It’s a territory for eager exploration.

For example, if you’ve been reading the posts even as far back as just this calendar month, you may recall I’m praying for God to send me on mission. Further, I’m praying that the mission include a paid employment as the cover that brings me into contact with military and government folks in general. I really don’t care who foots the bill, nor am I holding forth a particular minimal wage threshold. Instead, it’s all about the mission arising from a powerful sense of calling. Naturally, this all assumes the job will be consistent with my personality and best talents for blessing other people.

My faith is utterly certain this will happen in some way, though I could hardly predict the specifics. So I am committed to whatever changes are necessary to make this mission possible. I operate under the assumption that a certain range of things I’ve already been working on are part of the preparation. I’m seeking conviction for necessary changes. For example, my efforts in physical fitness, or my reassessment in how I use computers. When this mission lands in my lap, you can be sure I’ll share with you dear readers how it answers that major prayer concern, even if I can’t tell you the details.

I have no expectation of changing how our military is used and abused by the government. While I am aware of how much evil our government commits through her troops, whatever solution God has in mind for that does not include what almost everyone assumes. Follow your own conscience. I don’t like how our military is destroying so much, but I am called to bring my faith among them and that in itself is reason enough to avoid second-guessing God’s plans. How He uses my witness is His concern; I’m called to take it there.

His revelation makes it plain, should anyone care to investigate, that He is charge of human politics, broad natural forces, celestial events, and just about anything He doesn’t place directly in your individual hands. As far as we are concerned, the rest of humanity individually and combined is under His control, not ours. He is the choreographer of how all of our faithful efforts will be used, and we need not understand how apparent conflicts in conscience between us can work out for His glory. It’s blasphemous to insinuate that He needs our expert guidance. It’s blasphemous to assume our Western cultural values bind Him. So far as I can discern, current activists have excluded God. In broad terms, failure is their only prospect, even when it seems they have succeeded.

Whatever they gain, it won’t change anything that matters except by sheer accident, at which point they become a part of the broader problem of human political evil. Activism as our world knows it is merely more human politics, backed by a different flavor of artificial human morality. The mere fact it is “activism” makes it inherently worldly, and by extension, not godly.

At any rate: Prayer is the true activism.