convenience has become dirty word
running the other day, i found i was praying for american believers’ persecution. we have a lot of subliminal something right now, we don’t realize…
high blood pressure is labeled the ‘silent killer’, because, unless you visit a doctor regularly, your consciousness doesn’t really realize it’s there, except for feeling a slight bit ‘off’. as the pressure builds up, the heart works harder and faster, and gets tireder and tireder. the more cars travel on a road at a higher speed, the more wear on the road and the higher frequency of accidents; the more blood has to race through blood vessels, the more they become stressed, weak, and blocked.
in america we have a problem with high blood pressure, because of our food and habits, mainly.
but i dont’ think this is even the most dangerous of the silent killers.
we also have convenience, “rights”, money and insurance…. these, in america, equate to this ‘silent killer’… they’re buffers to the need to need.
i would even go so far as to say they are a subliminal type of persecution. we dont’ realize they’re killing our passion for our Savior and Lord.
God, I pray for open persecution of americans. look what’s going on in China, with tiananmen’s square of twenty years ago— youth are going on hunger strikes to press its re-examination; blogs, like this one, are being monitored and shut down if they are a threat to the state. and this is just the normal society’s response to reduced freedom. imagine the believers and their response: accounts of praying without ceasing. continuing to meet in homes as small churches of believers.
my purpose really isn’t to write a detailed document with worthwhile evidence that the church is less apathetic under persecution.
i just wish we were like the believers in the rest of the world.
i mean, we don’t have much time left and we’re wasting it on ourselves.
