Risks

Proverbs 16:9 “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”

We often feel like we have control over our lives and to some degree, we do. God has given us freedom to make choices. However, ultimately, we are not in control nor can we control everything.

Where did you come from? Who is making your heart beat right now? Who is rotating the earth around the sun? If you believe in God, the Creator of ALL, you know the correct answer to those questions.

In this blog post, I’m actually posting another blogger’s words that I read from Twitter. His name is Chris Hohnholz, he is a Christian blogger and his website link is attached below. I so appreciated his take on what we are currently experiencing in America, that I thought I’d share. I hope you appreciate it as well.

“I never thought I would live to see the day that this once great nation would become a people under tyrannical rule. And even worse, that I would see a day when people not only welcomed such tyranny, but demanded it. Tyranny because we are afraid. Tyranny because we might become sick. Tyranny in the name of protecting us from ourselves, is tyranny still.

So much of this is because we have forgotten that to live is to be at risk. There is no risk-free life. Walking out of our doors every day demands that we take risks. To walk across the street, to drive down the road, to go to work, to go to the store, all of it incurs risk. One can be hit by a car, be involved in an accident, incur an on the job injury, or buy food that is contaminated. There is no time when there is not risk. And, since we live in a world where illness exists and will always exist, risk of getting sick is always present.

Life is risk. Yes, we take the personal responsibility to mitigate risks. But that is the thing, it is our personal responsibility. I have to be the one to make those choices. I have to look both ways, I have to watch where I’m driving, I have to make safe choices at work, I have to be careful about the products I buy, and I have to be careful to not go out if I am not feeling well. Life is risk, but we take responsibility to be as safe as we can so as not to negatively impact others. Yeah, but others won’t be responsible! Yes, this is correct. That also is risk.

In a free society, we accept that irresponsible people live and work alongside us. We know they may not make the best choices, that sometimes their actions negatively affect us and others. But, the risk is worth the freedom. Because that’s what freedom is, risk.
We live in a free society because we know that tyrannical rule never is truly concerned about what is best for us, but what most benefits our rulers. We have seen it time and again. It’s simply historical fact. So, yes, risk exists in a free society. It is a price we pay to be free from slaves to tyranny.

We have forgotten this. We are insulated by years of prosperity. We think even the slightest discomfort must mean the free society has failed us. We ignore decades of growth in our ethics and morals from the past and assume it all is a failure. The greatest, most free, and most prosperous nation in the world must be failing us because we are not all experiencing what we think we deserve. We have some of the greatest medical advances in history, but because someone gets ill, because others could possibly get ill, our nation has failed. Because illness can often lead tragically to death, our nation must have failed. And when a new virus appears, we suddenly believe that we must surrender all freedom because illness can lead to death. Something that has always happened historically, and can never been completely mitigated or eradicated, still, we must surrender all freedom to make things magically change. Because we no longer believe in risk. Because we no longer desire to be free.

I never thought I would see this day, and it utterly breaks my heart. Many will read this and declare that I am the problem, I don’t care, and I want people to die. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know what tyranny brings. I know it comes in a bright colored bow promising peace and rainbows. But what it brings is poverty, enslavement, misery, and death. So, I do care. I care about my family, my kids, my loved ones, my co-workers, and my friends. I care that their liberties are being taken from them so that tyrannical leaders may rule. I care that this is done because they are being told the risk is too great. I am concerned that one day, they will never be able to live freely because we all became too scared to take risks.”

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