What Should We Do?

"Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." (Psalm 44:22)

Recently, President Obama was quoted as saying:

"There’s a sense....that the world is spinning so fast and nobody is able to control it."

I doubt he knows just how true that statement was..

There is only One who is able to control it...Who holds the whole world in His hands.

So many today are living in fear of a satanic group of terrorists who are wreaking havoc in the middle east; killing, raping, beheading, even crucifying anyone who does not adhere to their radical, Islamic extremist beliefs. I will not mention that evil organization by name as they deserve no mention or publicizing here, or anywhere else.

Those considered to be prognosticators are saying that something big and bad is going to happen to our nation soon. But few offer any specifics on what we should do about it.

So what should we do?

Think about what true followers of Christ did 1900 years ago, when they were being burned alive as human candles. Sawn in two. And fed to lions. What did they do?

They kept preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world.

They suffered for Christ's namesake.

A man we know has been in a horrific Iranian prison now for more than 1,000 days. Many petitions have been signed, and leaders of nations spoken to. Many have called the White House demanding this man's release. What more can we do? 

What did the disciples of Jesus do 1900 years ago?

"And when Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.”

So, when he had considered this, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying. And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a girl named Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter’s voice, because of her gladness she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate. But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, “It is his angel.”

Now Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished. But motioning to them with his hand to keep silent, he declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Go, tell these things to James and to the brethren.” And he departed and went to another place." (Acts 12:11-17)

How many followers of Christ are gathered together today praying?

Praying for our nation?  Praying for the lost?  Praying for our friend who is stuck in the Iranian prison?

The Apostle Paul wrote that the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, or physical. But are mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds...spiritual strongholds. We do not war against flesh and blood—against human beings. But against demonic principalities and powers. 

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." (Ephesians 6:12)

Prayer is the weapon—the key—that opens doors; that pulls down strongholds. 

And we need to look to—cry out to—pray to—Jesus Christ, the author and the finisher of our faith.

In these perilous times...these dark days... that is what we should do.

—God is Love and Love Never Fails.