Thought
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Sensitive
Subjects?
Modesty?
Sex? Taking a stand in direct defiance of the cultural norm? Persecution?
Islam? In the modern culture of today many, pastors and Christians will not
take an absolute right or wrong standpoint on “sensitive issues”. These
“sensitive” subjects include: sin, lust, money, sex, creation vs. evolution,
forgiving, marriage, divorce, dating vs. courtship, the inerrancy of the WORD
of GOD, deception, lying, drinking, and many, many more.
The culture basically says that anything
that is unfamiliar or countercultural to it is a “sensitive” subject. We are
warned by some that they will hurt us if we tell them that they are doing
something wrong. But O followers of Christ, we cannot continue to be silent all
the time! Some will hate us, yes, that is true. We WILL be persecuted. We will
have to face temptations. Jesus promised us that serving Him would bring
persecution, but we aren’t to fear the persecutor—we are to the LORD.
Dear Christian, we are not supposed to be
lukewarm. We should not be The Great Compromisers, but rather The Great Followers
of God! Whether this means being bold, standing in an enormous gap against “the
flow” (like evolution, the deity of Christ, the truth of sin, and the truth of
moral absolutes), praying and fasting
and crying out to the Lord to heal your land, etc… We need to be world changers, not culture accepters!
What
way(s) are you accepting non-Biblical “stuff” into your life right now? Ask the
Holy Spirit to show you how to make a change in your lifestyle and respond by
throwing out any idols that He reveals. Throw out that X-box, get rid of that
trash on your computer, get rid of cable, break or burn that music and those
DVD’s that are encouraging you NOT to follow the Lord, and rip up
or burn those books which are putting lies into your head every time you read
them.
We need to stand up for the Truth God in our
personal lives. But only after we deal with our big “plank” we can clearly
identify and remove our brothers “specks,” only after we have broken free from
our own chains.
Read and meditate on
Matthew 7:3-5 and then read 7:1-8
