2nd Book of Peter, chapter 3, verses 14-18.
14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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Peter is reminding us to be different than the lawless, unstable world. It requires boundaries to be found without spot or blemish and to be at peace. We must hold fast to what is immovable in a chaotic world. And the chaos will eventually be settled, not by human programs and alliances and structures, but by the judgment of God that will sweep it all away.
Whether it’s history, biology, or humanity, mankind is attempting to remove all the boundaries to a stable, functional society. Then it attempts to replace the things that are solid with things that are fluid whether it is gender and borders and historical facts, or the meaning of language and money. Instead of our money being backed by gold, it is backed by the full faith and credit of a government that has no faith and is routinely discredited. This cannot stand.
We must not only keep the faith, but keep it active. We don’t keep it preserved in a jar, but we use our faith to preserve our nation by spreading it far and wide. To paraphrase an old saying, in a land that is plunged into darkness, the man with a flashlight is king. We have the light of God’s word. If we who believe will all turn it on, even the unbelieving will see.