Dear friend,
I want to say something to you directly this morning, and I want you to really hear it, not just read past it.
You are not crazy.
I know that some of you have been told you are. Maybe by a son or a daughter who rolls their eyes when you bring up your faith. Maybe by a coworker who calls you old fashioned. Maybe by the news itself, which has a way of making people feel like they are the strange ones for still believing what they have always believed.
I have read enough of your letters now to know that this feeling is common among you. The feeling of being slightly out of step with everyone around you. The feeling that you see something other people do not see, and instead of being thanked for it, you are mocked for it.
I want to tell you plainly what I believe is actually happening.
You are not behind. You are ahead.
There is a pattern in Scripture for this exact experience, and once you see it, you will recognize it everywhere.
Noah.
For over a hundred years, Noah built a boat on dry land while the rest of the world went about its business. Genesis chapter 6 tells us the earth was filled with violence and corruption, and that Noah walked with God in the middle of it. Can you imagine what his neighbours said about him? A man building an enormous ship nowhere near water, warning of a flood nobody else could see coming.
He was not crazy. He was the only one paying attention.
Joseph.
Before anyone believed him, Joseph had dreams that told him exactly what was coming. His own brothers mocked him for it. They did not just disagree with him — they hated him for it, Genesis chapter 37 tells us, because he saw something they refused to see. He ended up in a pit, then in slavery, then in prison, all for seeing clearly before anyone else did.
He was not crazy. He was early.
Elijah.
When Elijah told King Ahab that a drought was coming, he was the only voice saying it. The entire nation had turned to false gods, and Elijah stood alone, watched, mocked, hunted. He once told God he felt like the last faithful person left on earth. First Kings chapter 19. And God's answer was not "you are wrong to feel that way." God told him there were seven thousand others who had not bowed to false gods either. They were just hidden. Elijah could not see them, but they were there.
He was not crazy. He simply could not see how many others were standing exactly where he was standing.
I want you to notice something about every one of these stories.
In every single one, the person who saw clearly was treated, at the time, as the unstable one. The dramatic one. The paranoid one. It was only afterward — sometimes years afterward — that everyone else understood what they had been seeing the whole time.
This is not a coincidence. It is a pattern that repeats throughout the entire Bible, because it is simply how truth moves through a world that has gone comfortable in its sleep. The people still awake always look strange to the people who are sleeping. That is not evidence the awake ones are wrong. It is evidence they woke up first.
I believe, with everything in me, that you are one of the ones who woke up first.
Here is what I want you to understand about being early.
It is lonely. I will not pretend otherwise. Noah did not have a community of fellow ark builders cheering him on. Joseph did not have anyone in that pit telling him his dreams would come true. Elijah genuinely believed, for a time, that he was alone in the entire world.
But none of them were wrong. And none of them stayed alone forever.
The same God who showed Noah the flood before it came, who gave Joseph dreams before they made sense, who told Elijah about seven thousand hidden faithful — that same God is not surprised by what you see right now, even when nobody around you understands it. He put it there. He is the one who opened your eyes.
That is not something to apologize for. That is something to thank Him for, even when it costs you something at the dinner table.
I have written before about the pattern of opposition that follows men and women God has chosen for a particular moment. I see that pattern again right now in the man so many of you have written to me about — opposed from every direction, including, this week, by some who were supposed to be standing with him. I do not think that is random either.
I wrote a guide tracing this exact pattern through Scripture, called They Tried To Stop Him: What The Bible Says About Donald Trump. I wrote it for the same reason I am writing this letter today — because I believe the people who can see clearly right now deserve to know that what they are seeing has a name, a history, and a precedent that goes back thousands of years. You can find it by clicking the image below:
Alternatively, you may access it here: https://fatherthomasletters.com/products/they-tried-to-stop-him-what-the-bible-says-about-donald-trump
So if someone in your life has called you crazy this week for believing what you believe — I want you to carry something different into the rest of your day.
You were not made to fit comfortably into a sleeping world. You were made to be awake in it. That is harder. It is also, I believe, exactly what you were chosen for.
God bless you, friend. You are not alone, even when it feels that way. There are more of us than you think.
With you in prayer,
Father Thomas
This week, I want you to do three things:
One. Read 1 Kings chapter 19, verses 9 through 18. Pay close attention to what God tells Elijah about the seven thousand he could not see. Let it remind you that you are never as alone as it feels.
Two. The next time someone makes you feel foolish for what you believe, do not argue. Simply remember Noah, building in the dry, certain of something nobody else could see yet.
Three. If you want the full picture of the pattern I believe is unfolding right now, read They Tried To Stop Him this week: https://fatherthomasletters.com/products/they-tried-to-stop-him-what-the-bible-says-about-donald-trump
I think it will settle something in you that has felt unsettled for a long time.