Colossians 1:13 "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son."
This evening I saw and shared a post on Facebook that shook me and made me contemplative. It was a line drawing sketch of a small church. Jesus outside the closed door as the members are blocking it from the inside saying, "Don't let Him in! He will change everything!" Whomp! Boy, did it hit me hard. Right away, I thought of it being a church issue, like in the picture. I reposted with a bold, "LET HIM IN!" and "He WILL Change EVERYTHING!"
I, like many of you, am a walking example of how Jesus can change a life. Do we, however, accept the watering down of faith? We need Him central in our churches, in our lives, and in our world. Unfortunately, often times there is but a mere shadow of Him in all of these areas. Many of our churches have given way to secular interpretations of the Bible and adopted an accepting attitude towards sin. There may also be an emphasis on Sunday morning coffee hour and fellowship being what draws people to one church or another instead of the power of the Word being preached there. As individuals, we hurry about day after day, squeezing devotional time between other tasks or activities, leaving little to no time for our Savior. Our world has increasingly stricken God from the public square, and now sharing the Gospel with others can be looked upon as harassment.
Do not go gently into that good night, fellow believers! We must stand for truth and what we know is right. We must speak that truth wrapped in love and mercy, but we still must speak it. We must pray and lift this world to our Savior, and we must be willing to do what He asks of us at any moment. Jesus will give us the vision and the strength through the Holy Spirit to do so.
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Listening to people in church, and people that claim to know and love God, I sometimes wonder what they are listening too. It is so clearly evident we are not listening to the same sermons or readings, etc.
But again, these same type of people were the ones who convicted Jesus and persecuted him for nothing. They cried out to convict and others followed.
I believe we must stand for what we know is right and not sacrifice our beliefs to fit the norm.
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