Are You Ready to Die For Your Faith?

Just a question I started asking myself after the Israelis started going after Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Let's talk reality - not political mumbo-jumbo or spin, but what the deal really is.

Islamic Fascists have two goals - first, to kill all the Jews. Second, to kill you and me. Christians, Americans, all of us. That is not Newt Gingrich's view. Or Rush Limbaugh's view. It's the Fasicsts view, stated over and over and over. They are possessed by the most horrific evil we have seen embodied since Hitler. Pol Pot and the Killing Fields. They want nothing short of world-wide domination and Islamic control, with all the infidels (that's you and me, buddy) either bowing their knees to Allah or being blown away by an AK-47.

Oh, come on! We live in America! That would never happen to us here! That is hopelessly naive. We are sitting ducks. We are targets. If our government does not get serious about sealing off our borders, the terrorists could come waltzing into our neighborhoods and just start picking us off one by one.

Those who want to live a godly life will be persecuted, Peter wrote. I'm sure he could never imagine the hell the Fascists want to unleash upon us.

What would most Christians do? Would we turn tail and run? Stand firm, like the students at Columbine? I hate to say it, but we are a wimpy nation. We are, as a whole, not ready for that kind of plot against us. What would YOU do if you were driving down the street on a Sunday or Wednesday after church and, at a red light, a terrorist comes up to your car and sticks a gun in your face.

"I saw you leaving that church! You are an infidel! I will kill you dead now unless you get out of your vehicle now, bow down, and renounce Christ and pledge yourself to Allah!"

It's coming. Someday. Are you ready? Are you ready to die for your faith?