How strong is your faith?
I was spending time thinking and praying for the people who
are being persecuted for their faith is Egypt. Currently, 60-80 churches and
Christian organizations have been burned to the ground in Egypt. I heard a
story about a 10 year old girl who was walking home from Bible study with her
Christian teacher. In the middle of the street, someone walked up to her and
shot her in the chest because she had a Bible. She was rushed to the hospital
by her teacher and was pronounced DEAD at the hospital. Father asked me the
question above and sadly, my answer was: Not as strong as the 10 year old girl
walking down the street of Cairo with a Bible. As I looked back at persecutions
from the past, Nazi Germany comes to mind here. In order for Hitler to kill 11
million people, he had to make others afraid to say anything. He did this
through Brute shows of force that made people scared to stand up. Right now,
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is doing the exact same thing by showing force and
trying to intimidate Christians into living under Sharia Law. If your church
was burned to the ground and you witnessed a 10 year old girl being shot for
her faith, what would you do about it? Are you willing to stand up for your
faith or is faith something that you practice in order to check some box on a
form? I am asking myself these questions along with others so that we can
decide what we believe in and can have the courage to stand in the face of
darkness if that day were to come.
So, how strong is your faith?
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