The Slippery Slope

It is wrong to fine the godly for being goodor to punish nobles for being honest!

Proverbs 17:26

Right now in our society there is a lot of pressure: pressure to punish those who take a stand for what’s right. It is not politically correct to speak up against abortion or to speak for morality.

Some would like to pass laws that would penalize doctors and nurses who refuse to perform abortions because of moral convictions.

Some would like to pass laws making it a hate crime to oppose gay marriage or to object that gay sexuality be taught to your first-grader in school. It’s interesting and sad that in our schools a teacher can dress up as a witch at Halloween but not sing Christmas carols. It is legal for a teacher to assign an R-rated novel but not to pray in the classroom. Bottom line, Christians: as the darkness of the world gets darker and darker, it will cost us more and more to stand up for truth, to share that Jesus is the only Way and Truth and Life.

Alan Redpath wrote, “We are prepared to serve the Lord only by sacrifice. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done. May God give to us hearts that bleed, eyes that are wide open to see, minds that are clear to interpret God’s purposes, wills that are obedient, and a determination that is utterly unflinching as we set about the tasks He would have us to do.”

Make It Personal . . . Live It Out!

They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out. But if you put it in cool water, then gradually turn up the heat, the frog won’t become aware of the threat until it’s too late. When gradual changes in a society are a slippery slope downward, we cannot remain complacent. We aren’t all called to picket and march. But we are all called to pray: “If My people . . . will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14, NKJV).

One Year Bible Reading

2 Kings 8:1–9:13; Acts 16:16-40; Psalm 143:1-12; Proverbs 17:26