Will What You Are Doing Last?

Do you ever read something and say 'how did they know this?'  Or maybe you hear someone make a comment that so echoes what you are thinking and you think 'wow, I thought I was the only one that felt that way'.  We often feel that we are alone in our thoughts or what we are the only one that believes in a particular cause.  Yet if we speak out we often find that not only are we not alone, there are many like us but no one wanted to speak out first.


I'm thankful for the brave folks that step out and say what they think.  Now sometimes it could be more tactfully worded but to be honest in this overly PC world, someone just being blunt and honest appeals to me.  Now everything can be done in excess but a little bit of straightforwardness is a good thing.


I have a friend that always speaks her mind, she has many folks who love that about her, but she has detractors too.  I love to hear her opinions.  Do I agree with everything she says?  No, but I agree with a LOT.  Yet even when I disagree, I applaud her dedication to stand for what she believes.


I know that when she gives an opinion she is going to be honest, she is not going to say what someone wants to hear, she isn't going to be swayed to be 'PC'.  In today's world that is refreshing.  We are all so 'afraid' of being labeled 'non-PC' we are often silent. 


I look in my Bible and I don't see a lot of 'PC' people.  John the Baptist certainly wasn't, and that got him beheaded.  Peter and the disciples after the resurrection weren't, of course that got them killed.  So I get why folks are afraid to speak their mind.  The results can be scary!  The results can be deadly.


Yet in the Bible and over the years since then there have been men and women with the courage to speak their faith.  The consequences aren't always good yet they stood.  How did they do that?  Weren't they afraid?


I think the secret is when you become more afraid of failing God than what man can do to you, you are at the point God can truly use you.  When you put more value on what God has promised than on earthly possessions, you find the peace to follow God's directions. 


Today is kind of funny for me, this is not the blog I thought I was going to write.  But this morning a young man stood up in Sunday School and read  II Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat , the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up .


He reminded us that we are going to only have what we do for Christ in eternity.  When we stand before the Lord, the things/possessions we think are so important, they are gone.  The things we did to draw attention to ourselves, they are gone.  Only what we have done for God will still be there.  Being 'PC' doesn't seem that important when you view from that perspective. 


Lord, give us courage and faith to follow You!