I begin my day by meditating on the Word in the early morning, praying for those who come to mind and sharing devotional cards, and as God’s Word of truth begins to work in my life, I find that not only does my perspective on the world change, but my relationships with people change as well. I apply Christian values to politics, economics, society, science, and the humanities, and I blog and share my reflections with those around me, and I have found that I resonate and deepen my relationships with those who meditate on the Word with me, but I have also found that I feel uncomfortable with those who do not. In particular, when I shone the light of truth on humanistic ideas that willingly and actively deny the Christian God, science that believes that life came into existence and evolved by chance over infinite time, religion that separates the realm of faith from reality and does not apply it to reality, and Korean politics that was stealing elections while people became apathetic due to dislike and disgust for politicians, something amazing happened.

I knew that the Statue of Liberty in the United States was a gift from France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War victory, but I didn’t know exactly what that freedom meant. I found out that it was not freedom in God, but liberty from God, which binds human beings, and that the torch she holds is the light of reason, which is the spirit of the French Revolution and humanism. I also found out that theistic evolution, which believes in both Genesis and evolution, sounds like a reasonable agreement at first, explaining that faith and science are separate, but in the end, the theistic evolutionary pastor was self-absorbed when he realized that evolution is not a science, but a faith.

In particular, I realized that the pastors who believed that politics is a matter of choice based on one’s values that has nothing to do with faith, and who said that people shouldn’t make political statements in church or be incited through YouTube, were the ones with leftist values. Maybe because I lived in the United States and was able to experience American laws and culture built on conservative Christian values, I could feel that Korean society was strange when I saw massive protests against the importation of American beef that was perfectly fine, or when a president who was suspected of bribery suddenly became a myth when his life met a tragic end, but I thought that people born in Korea and living with the same education might not know this because they were put in a huge box.

The opposition, which is seeking to impeach the president, who declared martial law on December 3 last year, has already impeached the auditor general, the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, and several prosecutors. After the state of emergency, they impeached the defense minister, the national police chief, and the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, and after the bill to impeach the president was passed, the president was suspended and replaced by the acting prime minister, but they also impeached the acting prime minister for not appointing the judges of the Constitutional Court they recommended. Eventually, they pressured the acting prime minister to appoint two judges they recommended. One of them, Judge Jeong Gye-sun from the Korea Institute for Legal Studies, had a conflict of interest because her husband worked for a law firm that represented the President’s impeachment team. She also accused the President of rebellion, but actually withdrew rebellion from the impeachment grounds submitted to the Constitutional Court, so that the entire nation could see her unjust intention to impeach him.

In the process, the police were mobilized to arrest the incumbent president in an unreasonable manner, leading to confrontations between the presidential security office staff and numerous citizens. On one side, the Democratic Labor Union and Democratic Party members and even Chinese protested in support of the impeachment, while on the other side, patriotic conservative right-wing citizens, 2030 University students, and Christians rallied against the impeachment, but the media reported it in a biased way. As the unprecedented situation of the presidential security office and the police continued for several days, there were remarks by opposition lawmakers encouraging violence, and there were almost clashes between the Democratic Labor Union and citizens on the scene, but fortunately, without any bloody clashes, the president announced that he would leave on his own, and was arrested and transported to the airlift center.

That day, a handwritten letter from the president and a pre-recorded video of him leaving the presidential palace were released, in which he said that the rule of law in South Korea had broken down, and informed citizens that the Public Security Service had used illegal arrest warrants and forged official documents, and that the Public Security Service, which has no authority to investigate insurrection, had mobilized police to try to arrest him for insurrection. The president mentioned the fraudulent election for the first time, saying that the vote fraud and rigged electoral system was made possible by the international solidarity and cooperation of political forces to push it through, rigged polls, and the refusal and cover-up of the election commission, implying that the great evil enveloping the country was not just the corruption of a few politicians.

Meanwhile, during the impeachment trial, when the President’s defense lawyers mentioned the news that 90 unidentified people arrested at the Election Commission training center had been taken to a U.S. military base and confessed to election fraud, and the Election Commission announced that it was fake news, I realized that there was a huge movement. And already, many awakened citizens and younger generations were hearing first-hand accounts of the scene and voices from the scene through independent media or social media, and Christians in particular were holding peaceful protests with weekly Save Korea worship services following last year’s 10.27 united worship service against the anti-discrimination law. In addition, as documentaries and many evidence videos of the fraudulent election continued to spread, it was emerging as a form of people’s right of resistance within Korea’s liberal democratic system.

Meanwhile, it seemed to me that Jesus’ words, “I did not come to bring peace to the world primarily, but a sword” (Matt. 10:34), were still applicable in this day and age: that once you start believing in Jesus, you are inevitably thrown into spiritual warfare, and that the peace that comes after achieving true righteousness and godliness is the only true peace. And as I recently began to understand a bit more about what Jesus meant when he said that following him meant leaving parents and siblings, I was reminded of a time in my past when I was deeply depressed, when I saw people who were uncomfortable in the face of opinions or even facts that contradicted their values and beliefs. The frustration and fear I felt at the time as my values and beliefs were shattered one by one was very intense, and I now understand that it was a process of dying to self, and what I realized as I went through the process was that there were many people before me who had gone through this, and that walking along that narrow path is like a trail, cozy and not lonely. So today, I woke up at dawn to write my blog and pray for my family and my country, and I started the day strong.