"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."
1 Corinthians 15:58 NKJV
Victor Frankl was a Jewish-Austrian incarcerated in a concentration camp in WW2. Guards took away all he had - his wife, his family, his clothes and even his wedding ring. But one thing that they couldn't take away was his freedom to choose his attitude. He had a belief, and this kept him going. He is noted for saying: 'The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.' And this is what kept him going through this barbaric of conditions.
This is not unlike what Paul was referring to in our text today. When things are against us, there is a need to make a stand and to keep standing. To fail to do this, we will go under. Why God allowed His people to suffer in such terrible ways is unknown. However, we must remember that He gave man freewill and when such things happen, this is the result. Suffering in such a way, is still going on in our world today; we have the Ukraine and Russian conflicts going on, Isis, terrorism, the Sudan and world leaders threaten other nations with further attack. It can be scary but, we must continue to stand.
The prospect of our children and grandchildren growing up in peace, is threatened on a daily basis. It's easy to look away thinking, 'It won't happen, everything will be fine.' But this is the 'blinkered look'. We can't just look ahead, we need to look at the bigger picture and pray. There are protests about this and that throughout the world. How about Christians making a stand for what is right? You may think, 'You can't change things,' this may be so but we can rattle a few cages can't we? Imagine the impact if, every Christian throughout the world made a stand for Jesus; for all of the hypocrisy, the corruption and unGodly living. We can make a difference! Everyone else challenges things, why not Christians challenging unrighteousness?
It is time to put on the armour that we may have left discarded and be prepared to fight for Jesus. Can I encourage every one to read Ephesians 6:10 - 18. The devil is having a hey day while we just sit and talk about it. Let is get active.
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