Faith Under Fire

In the midst of all the stressful things going on in the world today, we have the Lord and the Holy Spirit to calm us when we need calming. We draw strength from them when we need it to go on.  After three years of challenge of how I live my life due to constraints beyond my control, I can choose to be happy or sad, lonely or content in solitude, grateful I can still see, hear, eat, and for those who know me best, talk and write.

 

We are so blessed, but under pressure like never before. Choices we don’t understand are being made by powerful forces that affect everyone in the world. Evil is in the world. Christians are being called out everywhere they turn for simply being a Christian. People are dying from professing their faith. We are being challenged for stepping out ourselves to stand up for our faith. Even our word choices are under fire. Our language is sometimes so foreign to us, with formerly good words being now unacceptable to others. One of the most foul words has become commonplace, even in places where they write just the first and last letter with fill in the blanks in between. As if we won’t understand what they are saying because the letters aren’t there. I try to by pass those without thinking about what they may mean. Lois Prater, my English teacher always said the meaning is in the person and not in the word. 

 

I recall someone once asking a group I was in: What if you are the only Christian another person has ever met?  What a responsibility that is for us. But we are none of us perfect, even if we try hard to be like Jesus. Remember WWJD? What would Jesus do with this world today? He is aware of what’s going on, seated at the throne with God. Choices we make now, each one of us, can turn this world toward Heaven only by doing what God has planned for us. We need to study and pray for what God wants us to do and be. And most of all, love and laugh. That’s a good way to be like Jesus.