BBD 09.03.08 What are You Afraid of?
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09.03.08
What are You Afraid of?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it
is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death
nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor
things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord. - Romans 8:35-39.
An article in the newspaper caught my eye several years ago. The article
asked the question, "Are American's becoming scaredy cats?" (To be a
"scaredy cat" is to be unduly or excessively fearful.) The article also
asked if Americans had forgotten how to face a well-calculated risk and if
the West were still to be won, could we roundup enough brave souls to win
it? The article discussed a book by Harold W. Lewis entitled, "Technological
Risk. What are the real dangers, if any, of toxic chemicals, the greenhouse
effect, microwave radiation, nuclear power, air travel, automobile travel,
carcinogens of all kinds, and other threats to our peace of mind."
After I read the article I asked myself if that was the problem with the
church today. Have Christians become scaredy cats? Do the multitude of
dangers that surround Christians choke off their willingness to risk
anything for Christ? Have Christians forgotten Jesus says, "If anyone
desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,
and follow Me (Luke 9:23)."
If missionaries were to be called today to be the first to go to the
innermost regions of Africa, or India, or Burma, or China, who would go?
Could God find a Livingstone today? Could He find a William Carey, or a
Judson, or J. Hudson Taylor? Are there any Christians, today, willing to
risk all that they are and have for the sake of their Lord and Savior? Are
there any Christians today, standing in the gap risking all?
Livingstone once wrote to England asking for more missionaries to come to
Africa. Some months later the reply came that they had found some men
willing to come. They wanted Livingstone to tell them the best roads to take
to where he was. Livingstone wrote back that he needed men who would go
where there were no roads. God is still looking for men, women, boys, and
girls like that today.
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