November 3: Many may not have heard the expression “keeping my powder dry.” It harkens back to time when guns were loaded with gunpowder and a charge to ignite the spark. Keeping powder dry means one is not quite ready to act and chooses to wait to fight the battle, so to speak, at another time. That could mean deciding not to act, not follow through or simply not speak up. November 3, 1969, as the war in Vietnam raged on and protests, sometimes violent in nature, increased, President Richard Nixon took to the airwaves of national television to speak the country. His goal was to unite citizens behind the troops and their efforts in Southeast Asia. He pledged to follow through on the commitment we had made in Vietnam to help bring about peace with the Communists or give enough support to the South Vietnamese to handle more of the fight on their own. Near the end of roughly 30-minute speech, Nixon looked into the camera and called on those who supported the efforts, a group he called “the silent majority,” to speak up for what they believed. How many times have things we supported, causes we defended, gone by the wayside? How much of it was caused by not enough people speaking up? How many times have we seen things get decided by a loud minority while the silent majority sat and watched? Don’t be in the silent majority for God and what He stands for. “Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” (Colossians 4: 5-6)
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:52:50 +0000
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