(LifeSiteNews) — Americans are rightfully furious that the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list has not only been obstructed but deceitfully covered up as if it didn’t exist.
However, we are not only silent about the obvious conclusion — we are channeling our blame, attention, and energy in the wrong direction. Let me explain.
Observers are laying the blame on people like Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, and President Donald Trump, who have all inexplicably and maddeningly made an about-face on the Epstein files, testifying to the existence of the sex trafficker’s client list and demanding its release, only to jointly endorse the message that the files reveal no such list!
So they all just need to be fired and replaced so we can finally have people of integrity who will truly dish out justice, right?
It is, sadly, naive to assume that any one of us would do a better job than Bondi, Patel, or Trump. Of course, the ruthless, depraved intelligence apparatus that uses sex with minors and pornography to blackmail political and business leaders is ready and willing to use any kind of blackmail or threats to protect itself and the rest of the Deep State from its most passionate opponents — who once included Patel and Bongino.
Glenn Beck has already testified that multiple Congressmen have shared that they are being monitored and threatened by the CIA. One former CIA agent, Kevin Shipp, told Candace Owens that the intelligence agency tried to intimidate him into silence by targeting himself and his family with chemicals that made them sick, when he blew the whistle on certain unethical actions the agency had committed.
“This is why you never hear about CIA whistleblowers. They have a perfected system of career destruction if you talk about anything you see that is criminal or illegal,” Shipp told Owens.
There are a disturbingly wide variety of threats an agency desperate to protect its own power and reputation can use against us. Most would-be whistleblowers who would even risk their own life for the truth would not risk the lives of their children, or parents, or other dearest ones.
The Epstein files saga, then, forces us to arrive at the bitter conclusion that we are indeed ruled by an evil “deep state,” and that on a political level, we are limited by their corrupt desires.
Does this mean that we should stop putting up a fight in the Epstein case, or Washington D.C. in general? No. Even recent history shows that political wins are still possible, and especially “smaller” wins.
That Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were imprisoned to begin with, attracting attention to their operations, is a win. So is the fact that Epstein’s flight logs were published, showing that former President Bill Clinton along with certain celebrities like actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker flew on Epstein’s private jet central to his sex trafficking case. So is Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s testimony that the trafficker paid her $15,000 in 2011 to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew.
The real value of the Epstein files fiasco, though, is that it reminds us where most of us must channel our attention and energy. In doing so, this tragedy actually helps to empower us.
We underestimate, often enormously so, the importance of our own influence in our little corner of the world. Whether that’s forming and nurturing our own children, or helping to provide a necessary service through our day job, or even simply brightening someone’s day with a kind word or a smile. If we are gifted enough with the ability and circumstances, we can also work and fight for one of an endless number of worthy causes.
Really, our “smallest” works and battles are the most important, and the hardest. Loving our family; doing our daily duty well; and amid all of that, loving God by living within His will, and living in friendship with Him. That is our spiritual battle. Our day-to-day decisions not only have a powerful effect on our own little sphere. They’re the work that really counts. Because when we die, we have only our souls to take with us.
Ultimately, the one thing we will always have control over is our own soul. But this is also a beautiful thing: that even if we are imprisoned, even if we were to lose everything we have on this earth, we can always choose goodness, truth, and charity in our thoughts and actions. We can always aim to live unimpeachably. And we can always communicate with and be guided by God our Creator, who’s going to dish out justice in the end more perfectly than we could possibly imagine.
