Silent War

I have been engaged in a war since birth, as has each and every one of you. I bet you didn’t know that. Don’t feel bad; neither did I. The enemy is good. It has endless resources, recruits, and weapons at its disposal. Most importantly, psychological warfare is its forté. Any time one of us gets close to the truth, the enemy changes tactics, changes its story, changes our minds.

War is demoralizing, and the enemy wants us demoralized. It wants us to defeat ourselves, but that works better when we don’t know we’re under attack.

Was Aldous Huxley warning us about a possible future so we could stop it when he wrote (and the gatekeepers published and promoted) Brave New World, or was Huxley telling us the plan and hoping to desensitize us so we’re not shocked enough to fight back when doctors begin handing out Soma (rebranded as Paxil, Adderall, Prozac, Oxycontin) like it’s candy and begin creating babies outside of human bodies?

We’ve been told over and over that only the strong survive, but have we ever been let in on the secret about what kind of strength is needed? It’s not physical. Jacques Lusseyran, in And There was Light, noted that the prisoners with the biggest muscles in the concentration camp almost always died first, so that doesn’t count for much. In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn was one hell of a warrior, but he spent his strength escaping. In the movie version (and probably the book; I can’t remember), Elrond tells him, “Put aside the ranger. Become who you were born to be.”

Who were you born to be? Nobody else can tell you that. YOU need to figure it out yourself, but God is ready and willing to help you. He’s your greatest ally and has been since the moment you were conceived. But you won’t find him out there, and His voice can get drowned out or twisted in the words of other humans and in what they’ve created. And don’t think for a second that they have not made their way into your being. The voice inside you has been influenced and adulterated by others since before you were born (sound waves get amplified in fluids and plenty of studies have shown that unborn babies react to music, voices, and tones of voice).

God gave each of us a unique Story to tell through the life we live, but how many of us are somehow avoiding it? Who do we hurt when we betray ourselves and settle for something less?

The enemy and its minions (they are everywhere) are desperate to suppress our Stories, so they spare no effort and no expense to convince us that the task is too hard. Beautifully packaged tales abound and are handed out like pills: no need for you to do the hard and often painful work. “Why make it from scratch?” you’ll hear—on TV or the Internet, in a school, church, government office, board room, the house next door, even under your own roof—”We can offer you something professionally packaged and vetted by experts; your own story will never be as good as that!”

Don’t you believe them.