The Devotional – 1105 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

The Devotional – 1105 – Foot Steps in Second Corinthians, On Going

In our weekly Bible class we have been talking about being honest in our conversations to others and the response of those others when they find out we are “children of God”. One of those responses can be a day of reckoning when they say “Oh! Really!!!” Unfortunately, we are all guilty at times of lacing our truth with the Babylonian harlot of Revelation 18. Sounding completely awful to compare one who lies with Babylon, yet I do not apologize because I would not know this, unless I myself were not there a time or two. In our work place, even standing in line at the bank or waiting for the inn keeper to call your name for a sit down meal on the restaurant side, our testimony for the LORD Jesus is always in view and woe, to us if we say we are God’s children, just after openly complaining about the wait. 

CHALLENGES & COMMENTS – 2 Corinthians 11:22-33

Suffering for the LORD Jesus Christ these days is not the top priority of the average Believer these days. The truth, and in your heart of heart you know this… Christendom these days cannot be identified among those of the rest of the world around us. We have blended in like a chameleon, even to the very heart of being worldly about every subject under the sun.

The apostle in 2 Cor 11:22 but in a different light. “Are they (speaking of his relationship as a Hebrew) and he says I also am a Hebrew. If we look at our testimony in time can we say confidently, in the face of the public eye; “I am a child or saint of God” or if someone says to you that they are a child of God, can you openly agree with him or her in public by saying “so am I”.

I think that if we were to provide a “resume” for our qualification as a child of God, would it be as that of the apostle Paul, beaten for identifying with the death and resurrection of Christ, imprisoned for preaching the gospel, shipwrecked in Malta, confrontations with false teachers and concerns for churches all around us today who just play church.

Don’t say or think; “well that was then and this is now” we don’t do this sort of thing these days. if you believe this then “a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; Proverbs 24:30-34 is where you are and the resume you write stinketh like Babylon, Revelation 18:8. Today as we read, thousands in our so called third world will be persecuted for their faith and confession of being a child of God, some (many actually) will be martyred.

The power of the inner man is strong, as Romans 7:13-25 reveals that even the apostle Paul struggled at time for purity. There is a day on the horizon when we in the United States of America will be forced to give testimony to the world about our Father/child relationship to God through our faith in Jesus Christ. I do not want to hear the world say: “OH REALLY?” I thought you were one of us!

Let us all be of the character of the apostle Paul and say… “The God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, know that I am not lying” and if need be; let those who are our friends lower us out the window in a basket to escape from the hand of persecution.