It's On Us

On Sunday in our CSI Sunday School class we talked about the final beattitude which talks about being persecuted for righteousness sake.   With some shame, we admitted to one another that we have not been persecuted for righteousness sake or reviled or had all manner of evil spoken against us for Christ’s sake.  And the shame came in the fact that these things aren’t happening, because we aren’t doing the brave things, taking the stand, in big enough ways for people to notice and respond.

I was convicted of this again this morning when I read this passage in the Message from Isaiah 43:

But you are my witnesses.”  

    “You’re my handpicked servant

So that you’ll come to know and trust me,

    understand both that I am and who I am.

Previous to me there was no such thing as a god,

    nor will there be after me.

I, yes I, am God.

    I’m the only Savior there is.

I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed

    long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene.

And you know it, you’re my witnesses,

    you’re the evidence.”  

God never had a plan B.   From the beginning of time He choose us to be his witnesses…. to be the evidence of His existence and to be the ones who could describe His nature to others.  

Is that something you take seriously?

It’s us…. Christians…. in this world and the love that we show that’s the evidence.