Pastor John,
Sitting here thinking on the terrible things Paul went through in obedience to God; stoned, beaten, imprisoned, and he would not renounce Jesus and continued to preach him everywhere God carried him.
I realized that as things in this world worsen, and they surely are getting worse, that the prayer of God’s saints isn’t that God would spare us from the things that may befall the faithful, but that we have enough experience with Jesus, as Saul (Paul) of Tarsus did on the road to Damascus, so that no matter what we do go through, we will not deny the Savior who bought us.
I think that must start here, now, while there is peace to still be found on the earth. Not trading Jesus and our conscience with him now, for things that seem to present an easier path.
Today’s meeting was wonderful!
Jerry