Clever Free Methodist

In his letter to William Smith, dated July 9, 1795, Edmund Burke wrote, ““The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” He would later expound on his thoughts by writing, “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” In this current year of chaos with pandemic health issues, racial tensions, anarchy, and the rise of anger, hate and destruction, I am not surprised. Why? As Jeremiah 17:9 declares, “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked.  Who really knows how bad it is?” What does surprise me is the deafening silence coming from the majority of us who are Christians, who know better, can see the difference between right and wrong, and yet have no compulsion or conviction to really be motivated enough to do something about it.  That, by definition, could be one of the meanings of a coward . By definition, a coward i