Freedom Of Speech

Consider the following:
"I should be able to speak all of God's Word, that is freedom of speech. That is what we are losing..."

Let me as you this: Is our ability to speak God's Word something that can really be taken away from us? I am reminded of the cliche teacher response, "I don't know, can you go to the bathroom?" Here's the point: Our government can say, "you may not speak the Bible", but does that really mean that we can't? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Short of killing us, nobody can ever take away our decision to speak God's Word! So my question is: Will Christians continue speaking out for our right to speak out? OR, will we begin speaking God's Word instead? The former is NOT unimportant, BUT the latter ALWAYS trumps the first by a million times!!!

Ultimately, Jesus does not command us to fight for our safety or our rights, He commands us to fight for the Gospel! Mark 8:35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Paul, and most of the apostles scrapped tooth and nail for the Gospel. They were stoned and beaten and imprisoned. They were Soldiers of Christ! Stephen and many others became martyrs for the Gospel! This all took place in a region that was a lot more "scary" than the current U.S.

So here is the bottom line: We owe EVERYTHING to GOD, and NOTHING to ourselves. It is only by God's sovereign mercy that you and I have been born into this country. How can we owe ANYTHING to the United States or our Founding Fathers, and still owe EVERYTHING to Jesus? In my opinion that is not possible. You might say, "That is so un-patriotic!" I say, "In God we trust!"

Many of us want to sit here and blame the unredeemed, but the problem is not with non-believers, it is with us! Our continuous desire is to cling to our own pathetic lives in the hope that we can find something within ourselves to make a change. How arrogant of us!!!! Only Jesus has that power! I pray that we would trust JESUS with our lives, and remember that our ONE and ONLY hope is in the return of Christ! Who will give it ALL to Him??????

This is a short prayer that got sent to my email today, I think it fits perfectly:

TODAY'S PRAYER: Father, forgive me for my arrogance and thinking that I am somehow necessary in your work. I recognize that my only sufficiency for ministry comes from my weakness being offered to your service and empowered by your grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

P.S. I love Jesus for showing me that I am nothing without Him!