In church tonight we were talking about being salt and light to the world. Then we kind of went off on a tangent about Christians being silenced. It's true that every where in the world Christians are being discriminated against. In Africa, India and the middle and far east especially. Usually it's at the hands of a communist or Muslim government. Things are truly terrible for our brothers and sisters in Christ who live abroad. They are regularly imprisoned, beaten, raped, maimed, and killed for their faith in Jesus. The name Jesus puts fear in the hearts of all who don't know Him and that fear causes these terrible things to be done.
I don't know if it's noticed by my fellow countrymen but that fear and hate is creeping into the United States. Our courts are being run by activist judges who seem to neutralize Christians every chance they get. Political correctness is running a muck. It's OK for anyone of any other faith to do just about what ever they want in the name of their faith, but if I want to preach that abortion and homosexuality are sin and should be treated that way, people accuse me of hate-speech. If I don't want my children taught to worship the Darwin evolution god but to know that life was created by the one true God I'm called a flat earth fool. I know that these are just little things compared to what goes on in other countries but, if we keep going in the direction we are heading in, we'll be those other countries in just a few short generations.
We need to wake up, stand up, and not let anyone shut us up. Our nation was founded by men who believed that we should be free to practice our faith and not be dictated to by the government. If we let them tell us what we can and can't preach about, we're just handing over our rights. I ask anyone who reads this to pray, first, for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering and being oppressed for their faith and second, that our nation won't continue to ease down that same road.
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