Devotional Thought For Today Word #29: Risk Did you know? •163,000 Christians die every year for their faith. •75 percent of all religious persecution in the world is against Christians. •In the 20th century, more Christians died for their faith than in all the other centuries combined. What does your relationship with Christ really mean to you? To what degree do you care for Him? And how far would you really go to share His love? Our natural instinct as Christians is to express that we love Jesus with our hearts and that nothing will stop us from proclaiming His name. But when it really comes down to it, is that true? Paul, an apostle of Jesus, was a man who was beaten, stoned, and imprisoned for more than five years because of his proclamation of love toward Jesus. Nothing could break his love for Christ because a true foundation of Christ cannot be broken. Is your life so infected with the love of Jesus that you would be willing to take beatings, mockery, and even torture? Are we truly sold out for the one who paid the price? And are we as Christ followers ready to die for the very person who died for us? These are not hypothetical questions. They are real—just like the Love of Christ. Questions: •How much is your relationship with God worth to you? •Are you willing to risk everything for the sake of Jesus? Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:10: “God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.” Challenge: Take time out of your day to pray for those who are being persecuted in the name of Jesus, and evaluate how much your relationship with Christ really means to you - from 30 Words: a Devotional for the Rest of Us, Jarrid Wilson (Bellingham, WA: Kirkdale Press, 2012). I am blessed and grateful that I am getting to spend the day with the Pastors of the persecuted church in Chiapas, Mexico.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 12:32:48 +0000
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