Prima Facie

As it were, our judiciousness is founded upon innocent until proven guilty. In ethic, practice, Christendom, and citizenship, we assume everything is right and proper until given reason not to. That's perfectly fine, until the bombardment of secularism, an anti-God established principality, finds its ugly rearing head into the heart of the people of God. I say that, because everything is not OK.

At first glance, it appears educated, sophisticated, or modern. Maybe it's even sexy, glamorous, or celebrity. But it is the very dreadful thing that will attempt to undo what God has established as right and pure. One has to step back and take a look at the big picture: what is my life amounting to?

My habits, aspirations, desires, motives, needs - what are they? Christ centered, found in Scripture? or non-Christ centered, founded upon everything but him?

A hard pill, a bitter spell, but a necessary and overdue critique. A double take, a Berean heart, is what will be the difference. God will be glorified.

The practical ramifications: live sturdily trusting in God believing that everything is ok, but be alert and on the watchtower to look for the obvious, and the spies with many eyes. Discernment, critical assessment, prudence. Exile, yet tactile.