Silence

The enemy loves silence.
The silencing of a voice, erased from the earth forever by physical force.
The silencing of a deleted, cancelled individual removed from social media platforms. The silencing of childhood wounds, that tell an adult it is dangerous to speak up.
The silencing of insecurity that tells the story that a voice is not worth hearing.
The silence of those who see all the injustice, but don’t want their career to be affected.
The silence of those who see all the injustice, but don’t want their social life to be affected.
The enemy tells many stories in our culture in its attempts to silence us. The story that to speak will cause division. The story that we are not meant to judge. The story that we need to construct unity based around everyone holding the same opinion, or at least being quiet where opinions differ.

‘Never talk about Religion and Politics.’

I was reading The Hiding Place, a book by Connie Ten Boom, a Christian who helped Jewish people to hide during the second world war. She describes as a child observing lively and friendly debates between her Christian father and a Jewish friend.

Now, in a post-modern world the idea of an objective truth about our spiritual realm has shattered into a million tiny shards of glass, and to speak of anything more than our own ‘personal truth’ is deemed offensive.

But the way of silence offers no peace at all, and only carves a path for the enemy to roam free, in people’s hearts and minds. We are called to speak out.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them - Ephesians 5:11