More on Persecuted Christians
More on the subject of persecution. This comes from the iWorship Daily Devotional Bible
“In Peru, Christians don’t expect to get something for serving Jesus,” said Pastor Zapata. “They expect to give something.” To illustrate, Pastor Zapata showed his foreign guests a row of white crosses, each representing a local Christian killed by Communist insurgents. As if that wasn’t proof enough, inside Pastor Zapata’s village home was the body of another pastor who had been killed by guerrillas the night before. Expressing their grief, members of the dead man’s family ringed his body where it lay covered with a blanket.
Outside, though, the scene was joyous. Despite a steady rain, the congregation of the murdered pastor were singing praise choruses. Guerrillas had killed their pastor, destroyed their church building, and burned many of their homes, yet they sang praise to God. They were still at risk from the guerrillas, but they magnified the Father anyway.
These believers, and countless others whose stories are shared through the Voice of the Martyrs, had learned the lesson that Isaiah taught: Trusting in God is never the wrong choice. He is the eternal Rock to whom we can cling in life and in death—we trust in him always.
Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
—Isaiah 26:4
