Praise God! I believe the Lord is calling his people to repentance, and doing a work in the hearts of many unbelievers. Lord, please give us revival. One thing that has been nagging at my heart, is that though Jesus raled against the false religious of His day, who supposedly represented God, he otherwise preached love and repentance. How many of us show love to our enemies? How many of us are willing to show love to the antifa person? So many of us, instead,cry for justice, and feel almost hatred for them and others. What emotion wells up in you, when you see or hear one of them, or one of our crooked politicians spouting lies? Do we pray for them, or curse them? What would Jesus do? The Old Testament is full of righteous wars. And I believe and revere the Old Testament. But Jesus walked the earth under the cruel and Godless reign of the Roman Empire, and he said NOTHING about it. He preached NOTHING about “standing up for our rights”. He “captured” souls with love. What would Jesus do, in response to those evil ones around us? We are His representatives on Earth. I don’t know the answers to my own questions, but I do know that, “Only what is done for God will last.”
True! Because He already understood that His love, with all the power of God’s own love, would set captives free. Not all evil government powers immediately toppled. Martyrdoms happened. Paul was sentenced by Nero to beheading, but to Paul he was already sure that “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” Nero eventually passed from his evil throne.
Satan goes and bops us on the head to try to keep us and our message down. Here’s where banding together is so much more effective than going it alone. When one brother or sister is attacked, other brothers and sisters lift him or her up. Concerted prayer is going to be more and more necessary as the lever of Christ’s power upsets Satan’s applecart, at which we know Satan will rage.
Love is also not sitting around idly while the wolves rip and tear apart the sheep.
Amen to that!