A call to the Lord

 January 27, 2021

 

Judges 16:28-31

 

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”   And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.   And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So, the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.   Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Many of us who entered into or were drafted into the arm services never took seriously that we had agreed to die for our nation at all cost.  Many of us were 18 0r 19 years of age and death was not what we had in mind.  As you reflect on the Christian army many of them around the world face death or great hostility for being a member of that army.  But not so much those who are in the American Church, that is until now, but we are seeing publicly for the first time in our history as a nation, governors, and mayors taking actions to close down the Church.  We see a media that has no fear of God and a large group of the Washington establishment who have disdain for any who would follow His leadership.

 

A question I have been asking myself is, where is the line; Peter and John draw in the sand with the religious leaders.  You will find the account in Acts 4:18-20.  “So, they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.   But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,  for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” 

 

So the question each of us must look into the mirror of our hearts and ask is, do we have a line that we will not step over.  And by doing so we will answer the question, am I in the Christian Army or just another poser?

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice