13 Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? ~ Esther 4:13-14
When we stand silent as others are persecuted because it does not affect me, so I don’t want to get involved. I’m not political, but what you don’t realize is that it will affect you eventually.
Martin Niemöller, a prominent German Lutheran pastor who sympathized with many of the Nazi ideas and supported radical right-wing political movements in the 1920s and early 1930s, said:
First, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
Niemöller spent eight years of his life in Nazi prisons and concentration camps because by the time he realized that the noose was also tightening around his own neck, it was too late. Open your eyes to the direction the world is moving in. Don’t believe that you alone will stand because you’re not currently being affected. Don’t believe that they will somehow find you favorable even though you no longer identify with what they are doing because it now affects you and your family. Don’t wait for it to be too late to make a stand because when it affects you personally, that changes everything.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Make A Stand.
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