A Time to Speak

Our four year old grandson is a real extrovert. Caden chitter-chatters all the time about those things that are important in his world. He will give you every detail about what happens on the dairy farm where he lives including what the planting schedule is. Nothing happens at preschool that he doesn’t share. In a social setting, he is the one to take the lead and introduce his friends to all the adults and children present. Recently he introduced one of the neighbor children to his mother. “This is my friend who doesn’t talk.” His friend could talk and did talk but from Caden’s perspective his friend had little to say.

There are times when silence is the better part of valor. I usually err on the side of saying too much as opposed to saying too little. Solomon says that there is “a time to be silent and a time to speak.” (Ecclesiastes 3:7b) On the other hand, silence can be construed as approval. It is therefore necessary to speak up and speak out for what we believe and speak out against what we refuse to condone.

In the current Studies I have chosen to speak out. I am well aware that the position I have taken will not be popular with many and it is definitely not PC. It will, not by intent, offend some readers. I may lose some speaking engagements offered by those who hold to differing views. I am not saying this to play the martyr but to make you aware that I counted the cost of speaking out. I weighed it against the advantages of remaining silent. But because of the gravity of the issues, I have chosen that this is “a time to speak.”

Please read the Studies, Accustomed to the Darkness.