The huge crowd gathered, news reporters ready, cameras poised...ready for the Hero of the Age to step out on the flag-bedecked podium to speak yet once again. Prime time Television has been suspended yet once again to hear the wisdom of the World Class Orator and once again unite in a commonality of hope and vision for the new age to come.

The Voice of the World speaks thusly, inflecting meaningfully at just the right time. Using gestures of the hands to emphasize...eyes scanning the masses as if to unite them in the common cause:

A Short Story by R. McLendon

The huge crowd gathered, news reporters ready, cameras poised...ready for the Hero of the Age to step out on the flag-bedecked podium to speak yet once again. Prime time Television has been suspended yet once again to hear the wisdom of the World Class Orator and once again unite in a commonality of hope and vision for the new age to come. The Voice of the World speaks thusly, inflecting meaningfully at just the right time. Using gestures of the hands to emphasize...eyes scanning the masses as if to unite them in the common cause:

"We, the unknowledgeable, led by the unknowing, have been doing the unbelievable for so long, with so little, that we now attempt the impossible ....with nothing.

The masses are rapt with attention. So amazed at the DEPTH of perception the World Class Orator possessed. What a message of HOPE he brought.

"We have not succeeded in solving all our problems. The solutions we have found only serve to raise a whole new set of problems.

We are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things!!"

Applause thunders. Flashbulbs flash furiously. The crowd chatters excitedly with a glow on their faces.

"That was so inspiring" ...they say.

"I am so stirred in my soul!"

"I truly feel I have been elevated into a higher consciousness....as if mankind has achieved godhood! This must be the One whom they said would bring peace on earth and good will toward mankind. Finally we are ONE."

A few puzzle a bit, however.

"What did he actually say?"

"Uhh I don't really know, but it was so GOOD. So powerful! I am so glad to be part of this Great World Citizenry!"

On the other side of town, small huddled groups of the "Unwilling" turn off the TV in their living room.

"Did any of that make any sense?" one asked the others.

"To us, absolutely NONE? But it seems crystal clear to the majority! It is the voice of the world. WE just don't fit in. That's why we have been tracked, ID'd and labeled "the Unwilling, aka saboteurs of the ‘system,' that the Change Agents want removed from existence."

"But who is right? Are we really the crazy ones here? Or are they?"

"God has said in His word: ‘. . . be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God," said one of the Unwilling.

"All wisdom comes from Him, all good things come from Him...." Added another.

"So it is the huge masses of the ‘Unwilling to Believe God' who seek to annihilate these ‘unwilling ones' who seek not to be conformed to the world but to be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of their minds that they may cease being the ‘unknowledgeable' and come to KNOW what is the good, the acceptable and the perfect will of God.' We have become Haters in their eyes, because we cannot affirm them in their quest for a New World Order, but in the end these that the world has labeled ‘Unwilling Haters" will stand in Eternal Life, while they who would not come to the Truth in Christ are destined to destruction.

Together the pitifully small company of the "Unwilling Haters" said:

"So OUR speech shall be a declaration, whether we stand before angry mobs of Jesus haters, executioners, or the complacent lukewarm religious. We shall say before men:

"We, who know our God and are led by the foreknowledge of God, have been doing what we have believed since the beginning, with all authority given us by Him, that we now do what seems impossible. ...with full knowledge that His word will accomplish that which it was sent to do.

"We have succeeded in overcoming our problems through Christ the over comer. The solutions we have found have brought permanent deliverance and healing, joy and peace, confidence and strength.

"We will stand in the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world, and now stands unmoveable and Holy in the Holy mountain of God.

"We are persuaded, that what God has said He will do, and we overcome the world by the Word of our testimony and the blood of the Lamb. Kings and kingdoms will topple and shatter at His voice. To God be all honor and glory and power and might forever and ever. Amen and Amen "

"Wonder if any of them will hear and understand it? Doubt if many will. After all one who believes God needs no explanation. And he who believes not... Well all the explaining in the world won't convince him."

Becky

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