A whole lot of Christians are up in arms right now about all kinds of things going on. I don't know if is is just social media or not, but it seem like Christians main focus is a mixed bag of disliking President Obama, defending their rights to own an arsenal of weapons, keeping their Confederate flags, and thinking the legalisation of gay marriage is the end of civilisation as we know it.
This world is not the safe haven for believers and their ways that it was once was. It never was meant to be that way.
As I preached today from 1 Thessalonians 5.16-17 I was impacted by how dissimilar our response is to what Paul told the Thessalonian believers. I intended to preach in a much larger segment today, but only got through theses two verses and the three lessons they give.
So what do we do when things are going? Do we tell the world through Facebook and Twitter how we are not going to put up with it?
Paul doesn't say that. He says:
Keep on rejoicing
Keep on praying
Keep in giving thanks
I wonder how we would do if instead of telling the whole world how upset we were we we rejoicing, praying, and thanking God? What if our social media presence was full of joy and prayer and thanksgiving?
I wonder which would have a greater impact for the cause of Christ? I wonder which would better tend to draw men to the Saviour?
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