Are your loyalties placed or misplaced? Are your loyalties such that you would go to jail for another’s agenda? Is there a person whose role in your life has been significant enough that you would exchange your freedom for their cause?
Let your mind slide to our President. Donald Trump expects loyalty from those he appoints. That is reasonable, but what about men like Manafort? Flynn? Gates? Cohen? Papadopoulus? Since Donald Trump’s election, each of these has garnered a criminal conviction touching on their relationship with him.
Have you heard of Nelson Mandella? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Bonhoeffer? John the Baptist? King David? It would seem that neither time nor geography protects one from principled living. Principles are important. There are causes for which we should be willing to exert our energy, our money, comfort, and even freedom.
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