When darkness seems to be prevailing, there's a tendency to lay low until conditions improve.
But it's during such times light is needed.
And, of course... believers long ago didn't transform the Roman Empire by constantly taking cover...
They changed the world by demonstrating love, goodness and truth in the midst of the crookedness and chaos around them.
There are times when keeping your head down is in order, for sure.
But as a rule, God's kingdom is advanced outside of the foxhole.
Since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation (1 Thess.5:8).