TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH

It is sad indeed to know that there are Christian leaders among us who are too timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men and women to give to God only that which costs them nothing! The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles. Christ calls men to carry His cross; we call them to have fun in His name! He calls them to suffer; we call them to enjoy all the bourgeois comforts modern civilization affords! He calls them to holiness; we call them to a cheap and tawdry happiness that would have been rejected with scorn by the least of the Stoic philosophers! When will believers learn that to love righteousness it is necessary to hate sin? That to accept Christ it is necessary to reject self? That a friend of the world is an enemy of God? Let us not be shocked by the suggestion that there are disadvantages to the life in Christ!

Verse

In hope of eternal Life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Titus 1:2

Thought

The contemporary moral climate does not favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles.

Prayer

Lord, I will follow you no matter the temporal cost to me, because the riches I have in you cannot be truly counted by unredeemed men. I realize that there is nothing here made of earth worthy of you. I know the cost of following you, and I accept it.