I was reading today about Christians being persecuted and murdered in Africa and the Middle East, and it was like getting punched the stomach. As I kept reading my thoughts, in the natural fight or flee mentality, raced with questions as to why they don’t fight back. That’s when I realized there is a misconception among many Christians today that I feel is driven by human nature. When we look at what’s going on in the world that we, as Christians, must deal with and face on a daily basis, our instinct is to fight. My instinct is to fight. But our trust and faith is not supposed to be in our instincts it’s supposed to be in God. Responses like anger, apprehension, rage, and fear are more common than ones like love, patience, trust, and faith. As much as we want to fight we have to remember the war is over, it ended the moment Christ died for us, and the moment He returned our purpose, like His, became to save. Through out the Bible Jesus tells us that this isn’t going to be easy…
“And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved”
-Mathew 10:22
We have to remember that after being beaten, tortured, and crucified Jesus’s heart was still filled with nothing but love. Even as I say that now, I struggle with fully understanding it, while at the same time knowing I need to have love like that. But once again, that’s me viewing the actions of God with the eyes of a man as opposed to trying to see my actions with His eyes. In the end I know I have to be patient not only with myself but with everyone around me because we’re all struggling with something and as much as I think I know what is best, I have to Trust God’s plan above anything I can come up with. And it’s having that kind of faith, a true blind faith where we see and live using the eyes of our heart, that we can be the people that Christ wants us to be. That we need to be. I’ll leave you with this…try to find joy in all you do and live the faith. God bless
Faith like Water 