Devotion: Stand on the Word

From 1 Kings 18:21 we read, “And Elijah came near to all the people and said, ‘How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.’ And the people did not answer him a word.”

One year ago, I was blessed to stand at the very place Elijah said these words. I could not help but think that nothing has changed. God’s Word is spoken, and the people said nothing. I do not want to be known as one who says nothing.

We are in a crisis in our culture. Every day there is clear evidence that we live in a world where God’s Word is hated.

In 1970, a small church was meeting in mainland China. Soldiers broke in and demanded that every person in the meeting must bend down and spit on the Bible if they wanted to live. First a middle-aged man came forward and spit on the Bible. Then another did the same.

A 16-year-old young lady came up and bent down wiping the spit off the Word of God and prayed that God would forgive those spit on HIS Word. The soldiers put a gun to her head and shot her.

According to the Family Research Council the attacks on Bible Believing Christians has increased 114 percent since 2014.

Again, according to the Family Research Council there are those in leadership today who have been quoted as saying Christians who adhere to the Word as truth must be silenced.

We are not living in mainland China however we are rapidly moving toward a future where those who stand on the Bible as truth will be facing persecution.

I am encouraging believers in Christ to stand on the Word of God, every Word. Or will we be a people who say nothing?