Most of America watched in horror and dismay while our great nation left the rails over the past four years. As the radical left abandoned biblical principles, moral absolutes, fiscal responsibilities, and even constitutional articles, too many sane patriots passively grumbled but failed to act in opposition. Thank God the 2024 election was a watershed when the silent majority finally proclaimed, “Enough!”
The last two months have seen our nation begin to upright the national train wreck and start the heavy task of lifting it back on to the rails. For several decades American culture has been on a slippery slope into a dark place of confused values. Influential segments of our society were calling right, wrong and wrong, right. This misguided movement was led by the entertainment industry, mainstream news media, educational institutions, liberal business leaders, and leftist polilticians. This phenomena is not new. It has recurred throughout human history. The prophet, Isaiah, wrote almost three millennia ago, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (Isaiah 5:20).” From generation to generation, morally upright societies have cowardly acquiesced to their internal evil practitioners who dragged them down to corruption and debauchery. This as good people remained silent and tolerant. Such has been gradually occuring in America, but it reached a boiling point over the past four years.
Since 2021, our federal, state, and local governments, along with other major institutions, have fostered a societal transformation that has been destroying the very fabric of our society. The failure of godly citizens to object has encouraged the invasion of millions of unauthorized immigtrants–many of whom are hardened criminals. Radicals have taken away the moral innocence of our children by corrupting their understanding of natural gender and sexual attraction. They have perverted the definition of marriage and family. They have put tax-payers enormously further in debt for unnecessary and politically expedient projects and services. They have diluted the justice system as criminals are labeled victims and victims are neglected. Our foreign policies have allowed our enemies to advance as our weakened military has been underfunded and hung up on “woke” objectives.
But America just made a hard right turn. When poet, Alexander Pope, wrote, “Hope springs eternal in every human breast,” he described how our nation’s patriots have awakened. Pent-up frustrations of the majority of citizens have exploded. Last November’s turning-point election was a gauntlet thrown down by right-thinking Americans using the voting booth to scream,”We’re not going to take it anymore!”
Frankly, I held little anticipation that it would happen. I shamedly admit that I had largely lost hope in my country. I was convinced that we as a people were going to continue the death spiral that has been the destiny of so many other nations throughout history. My spirit mourned for my children and grandchildren who wouldn’t enjoy the life I had been blessed with. But, praise God, I now have a renewed faith in where this great country is headed. For me, the election revealed that the silent majority was no longer going to remain silent. Millions who feared being labeled insensitive if they didn’t tolerate the the radical socialists finally rebelled. It restored my hope for my country. Of course, I realize it may be just a short reprieve. I may live to see us go off the rails again. But the course correction we are presently experiencing is to be celebrated. It should cause all conservatives to recommit to seizing this new year as an opportunity to Make America Great Again!
You may be thinking my rose-colored glasses have put me over the top in my newly acquired view of the world. Well, maybe. But I do have a much better outlook for the America I love and serve than I did a couple of months ago. Let’s take a moment to thank the Lord for not giving up on this nation and for putting us back on the rails. Pray that 2025 will be a year America will someday look back on as the time of national recovery and rehabilitation. We may not have the opportunity to survive another train wreck. God said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3).” Let us call on His help as we move this train forward in a better journey ahead. A journey that will not fall prey to the radical left again.
