Day 445 of 1000

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. –Revelation 3:16

Kelly talked about some friends and acquintances over the last few days who described themselves as apathetic about what they call politics.  They would also call themselves Christian.  There will be great suffering because of this apathy.  I just finished reading a blog post titled Preparing for Persecution.  The author of that post plans to write a series of six posts on the following topics:

  1. We must go deep in Christ. He himself is our guide and our sustainer.
  2. We must know clearly what we believe, and why.
  3. We must train ourselves to be able to explain those beliefs and reasons, for we will be challenged on them.
  4. We must demonstrate God’s goodness through self-sacrificial love.
  5. We must act in unity, to the greatest extent possible consistent with our principles.
  6. We must see God as greater than whatever may come our way.

The topics themselves encouraged me.  I am looking forward to reading the posts.  I think the results of the recent election were a great gift in that they have reminded us that Christ only is our king.  Even though we have not been perfect, we are more thankful than ever that we yanked our kids out of government school to “train them up in the way they should go” with the most important effort being the teaching of the kids what we believe and why we believe it.  We had rededicated ourselves to topics 1, 2, 3, and 6 before I read this post, but I think we need to add the other two.