The absurd assault on basic common sense arose quickly—within two generations. Our religious institutions became complicit, accepting funding in exchange for harmful agendas. Conflicting ideas within our denominations encouraged moral relativism. We lacked firm standards to anchor our beliefs. No firm truth allows us to consider one action universally right and correct, and its opposite action universally wrong. We have become so lost in our own individual religions that we now call good evil, and evil good (Isa 5:20).

Disillusioned, without any firm standard to enable the beliefs we should hold, believers became focused, almost obsessed with the afterlife. We have forgotten about “this life” that God has allotted us. Do we shirk our responsibility? Indeed, we have allowed our religious and political systems to fall into the hands of despots of rotten, lawless men who exploit and fleece the flock.

Yet, we wonder why God has not returned. Should He ignore our request to no longer be united under Him? Having slid so deep into misery, we find the antidote too remote. It is not expedient. Do we desire the way that enabled our grandparents to trust in Him? If God’s ways are too onerous why make a fuss? Manmade truths are at an impasse. We are losing our civility. Fractured unity is turning into oppression: class against class, brother against brother, will everyone become an enemy? Can we afford this manmade lawlessness?

Without God’s Divine revelation, we remain silently asleep. We are born to grow. We mature into the flower of life, then pass on. What future will we leave for our children? Do we desire them to inherit our misery? How far from God will too big to fail lead our children? As an unanchored society, life is consumed by uncertainty. It does not matter whether we acknowledge our departure from natural law or deny it. Secret or known, the consequence of our policy remains, no matter how we decry it.

They are asleep. In the morning they are grass which grows up. In the morning it flourishes, and, in the evening, it is cut down, and withers. For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath we are troubled. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. (Ps 90:5–8)

In this psalm, Moses understands that division and hardship occur as a natural consequence to our rejecting God. We grow no stronger than blades of grass. We can be easily torn and wither away. Nothing lasts. All is inflationary, bloated, and meaningless. It is not our lords that hold us down, but our own iniquities. The beliefs that govern our actions have darkened in our sleep. How do we reverse this constant struggle? How do we triumph over misery to

live productively? Is all vanity (Eccl 1:2)? How can our lives succeed so that we may live in prosperity? How do we regain the power of our voice? When will silence no longer be the song of the majority?

AWAKENING TO STRENGTH AND UNITY

Being our own gods does not work out so well without One God to unite our hearts and ways. Throughout history, manmade states do lead to tyranny. How do we break this endless Tytler cycle of oppression, so we are not stuck in its depression? Our perception has been based upon misdirection. Our concession allows our misery without a Divine Code of Law to protect our rights. What if our silence we no longer allow? Would it heal the hate? Could it unite manmade enemies, transforming them into truest friends? Sympathy is of no avail! It is time for too big to fail. Enough of these corporate lords, when One God does reign Supreme! What if one common bond would unite and awaken us from this miserable night? Can we start afresh? Can God’s written, timeless Code of Law pierce through manmade lies that deceive? It is time to awaken the giant.

To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the Law is to fight them (Prov 28:4)