Wearied by the Footmen
Recently I received a ministry letter
from a former Bible college professor. This is a man I respect greatly,
but was very disturbed by a part of his article.
He wrote,
"Whatever can be
said about the ills of America, it is still a "land of peace" compared
to much of the world."
The gist of the message had to deal
with Christian persecution around the world and Christians fainting in
the day of adversity.
The above statement speaks volumes of
where Christian leadership is today. How can any leader say that America
is still a "land of peace"? We have the blood of over 44,000,000 unborn
children that have been slain crying out for justice. A land of peace? I
hardly think so.
This also speaks of just how out of
sync our church leaders are with what is going on in our land. Those of
us involved in pro-life ministries are well acquainted with "the stare."
What is "the stare" you ask? The stare is the blank look you get
whenever you meet a new pastor and he asks you what ministry you are
involved in. When you tell him ‘pro-life work’ - it is followed by a
blank stare, an uncomfortable moment of silence, and then a quick change
of subject. Why is that? Has the liberal media so indoctrinated our
church leaders that pro-lifers are to be feared? When they hear the
words pro-life, what images are stirred up in their mind? I just
recently met a pastor who was under the assumption that every abortion
clinic has a bubble-zone around it! (They do not.).
Concerning Christian persecution, those
who have been on the abortion front lines can testify to the injustices
and harassment we regularly receive from the police, disgruntled women
and their boyfriends, and other so-called Christians. Active pro-life
churches have been harassed and even closed. A "land of peace"? Not from
what I seen.
Christians are fainting in the "day of
adversity" and they don’t even realize it. The battle is raging right
outside their church doors, and they either don’t know about it - or
don’t want to know about it. If only they had ears to hear the cry
of the unborn babies that have been slain and are being slaughtered.
Jeremiah wrote:
"If you have run
with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend
with horses?
And if in a land
of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do
in the flooding of the Jordan?"
The race with the footmen is almost
over. The horse race is about to begin. How will we fare in the horse
race when we were wearied by the footmen?
Steve Wetzel
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