The Struggles of A Christian - Today.

 I started the Struggles of A Christian because of the things in my life that I was struggling with and what the Christian of the day was struggling against. In fact if you read the first book I published you see tithing, gratitude, negativity as a main subject. Prayer and study as a non existent tool, living the Holy Life, and teaching the younger generations.

Here we are 17 years later and all the Things I spoke of then are now magnified, and we can see the results of what we have not done. We can also see the consequences of what we have done.

What are the struggles of a Christian today? It is no longer prayer and study, it is no longer tithing and negativity.

Today the Christian of Today struggles to even serve, to get out and acknowledge Him. We are embarrassed to talk of Him, you might say not me I prayed at dinner at home. Sure, what do you do in public? At work? In front of the worldly colleagues? Do you talk as they, laugh at the same jokes, use the same perverse language?

If you go out for a meal do you pray? If you go to a store, are you as they, pushing and shoving only worried about you and what you “need” to get?

The Struggles of a Christian today are simple, just living for Him seems to be the struggle. There is a dearth of Christian behavior in this nation today.

Prayer? Doesn’t happen.

Study? Are you kidding?

Holy Life? Well that aint necessary He loves me as I am in all my ways.

We have allowed the hijacking of the Christian name and Christian Life and now a real Christian is an oddity even in God’s House.

We have allowed a false Gospel to pervade this nation a Gospel that says God is Love and you are ok as you are. A false Gospel that allows them to ask why doesn’t God see things my way?

I actually heard that, someone asked why God doesn’t just look through their lens to see things the way they do.

This is the God we have created in this nation. One that they believe is inferior to them, meant to serve them, for their feelings, their emotions are their rulers and God is a Genie who grants them wishes based on their feels.

The problem we have is that most have no idea who God is. Most don’t want to know.

Just as the Israelites, when they saw God descend on the Mount and then heard Him speak they ran 12 miles to get away from Him!

When Moses saw His glory Moses’ face shone as the sun.

When Jesus was transfigured on the mount the Disciples saw Him and wanted to build a tabernacle.

Mar 9:2  And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. 

Mar 9:3  And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. 

His Glory came forth from inside of Him, notice there was no light from the outside that changed Him it was His Glory shining forth.

Then Moses and Elijah appeared and spoke with Him, no light , no Boom it all came from God Himself, Jesus, who allowed them to see Him in all His Glory.

Mar 9:6  For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. 

Peter, James and John were sore afraid. And why? For they saw God in all His Glory, and it was frightening because He is not as us, we are not as He.

In His image does not mean just like Him, just as your kids are in your image but are not a copy or replicate.

Yet, we have taken His Specialness and imputed unto ourselves and for no reason at all. We are not special, in fact humans are probably the worst of Creation.

We have a Secular nation because the church is secular

 

We have a secular nation. One obsessed with sex, with self and with getting what they want when they want it.

This nation is all about do what feels good, you deserve it. Everyone owes you, you are good people. No effort required because it will just fall into your hands.

AND do you know why?

Because that is how the church in America is. It preaches God will accept you and you can stay in your sin and laziness. God loves you and you deserve to be rich healthy and wealthy. God loves you and delights in your sin.

Or the biggest of all God loves you, you don’t need to do a thing for Him after all you are special, He is lucky you even glance His way.

We have a secular nation because we have a secular church, because we have “Christians” who have no idea who Christ is.

God took the time to write a love letter to mankind, Took the time to devise a plan that man might come to Him again even though man sin, rebelled and ran from Him. God took the time to come to this earth, Live, Die, Teach, and put together a team that might pass down these things. He took the time to die, get buried, rise again, and (in the perfected state that we have to look forward to) further instruct His team how to proceed. Then He ascends to the Father but He is not done on earth, for He calls one Paul to be a missionary to further the Gospel, the first missionary is sent out.

And what do we do with all of that? We spend more time denying, finding reasons to twist and pervert the Scriptures. We spend more time looking for ways to get out of believing the “hard” stuff rather than seeing it for what it is – A plan of Salvation.

We treat it as a suggestion. To the Lost world absolutely this Bible is a suggestion, but to you True Child of God this is a life, not a suggestion. It is an order.

You receive Christ accept Him as your Lord, Savior, Master and Redeemer, you have a home in Heaven, you have an escape from the penalty of Sin. You have a pass from death and Hell and what do you think you need to do with that? Well, according to most today, nothing.

And that lie is pervasive in most churches today. That lie that you have no obligation is killing this nation and these churches.

God does not owe you a thing. You owe HIM everything. Yet we tell no one of this blessed Savior, this God who so loved the World. Instead we sit and stink and allow them to go to Hell in Droves.

And I truly believe it is because we do not believe in Hell anymore.