For all the God fearing men and women in my life (and really
for everyone regardless…) be prepared. As my small group leader said last week, "Your Bible is a newspaper right now.", meaning we are seeing scripture being fulfilled right before our eyes. I’ve been reading so much about what is going
on in Israel right now, and now I’m reading about Mosul. For those of you who
do not know what is going on in Mosul, Christians are being beheaded. And I
don’t mean the poetic guillotine type beheading. I’m talking the dull-blade,
slow, sawing off beheading. And the
children’s heads displayed on stakes at the local park. And then the bodies arranged in cutesy
creative photographs. Apparently instagram isn’t just for that amazing steak
you are about to eat. It’s
like a Jihad Pinterest. It’s barbaric. It’s evil. It’s real. It’s happening.
There are some people who don’t want to see graphic content.
I for one can’t handle really gory movies because I know that it is stuff that
I can’t unsee. When it comes to real stuff though, stuff that I need to pray
for, stuff that I need to grieve for in my heart, I prefer to look. I want to see reality in all its gore for
the same reason I don’t watch it in movies: I can’t unsee it. I want it burned
into my mind because it forces me to pray. Because of that, I post this link
here. Look and see the reality of what is going on.
If the people in Nazi Germany had forced themselves to
actually walk through the camps, hear the cries, see the piles of emaciated
dead bodies, do you think they would have been more likely or less likely to
act? My vote is that it would have spurred them to action. That is why I choose to look. It moves me to
prayer.
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