I know the answer to this, but I’m going to ask it anyway.  Why does Christianity get singled out in today’s world?  Why do people try so hard to remove or get so offended by the words “in God we trust” in our government?  Rememeber when “one nation under God” was recited in elementary and middle schools across the nation and no one thought twice about it…. a mere decade ago?  Today, it seems that everywhere you turn, people are taking offense to hearing God come up in our everyday lives.  Our nation was founded and exists only because of God.  How quickly we try to discredit that.  I recently listened to Stephen Colbert’s audiobook, “I am America and so can you.”  While a lot of what he said was merely for humor, he made it very clear that we live in a Christian nation.  So, why has it come to this?  Why, if so many people claim to be Christians or claim to believe in God, do we find God being pulled out of government, schools, and airwaves?  Its simple really… That’s what satan wants.

Make no mistake, satan is not stupid.  His lies can twist solid truth into a heap of confusion.  But you’ll never see him attacking the Muslims or the Hindus.  He has but one target, the Christian.  I can see it, or rather, feel it in my own walk.  How I sometimes put off reading my Bible to do something of far less significance, or how make time to be late for church but yet arrive promptly for work.  While I’m no where near where I need or would like to be, if his pull is so strong on a “mature” Christian, then what kind of effect is he going to have on a nonbeliever?

Unfortunately, I’ve seen the attacks that the devil uses to lure nonbelievers and I can honestly say that it breaks my heart.  It breaks my heart to see someone who doesn’t have a clue get pulled even farther from the truth.  It partially because I know the consequence and partially because it makes me feel helpless.  How do you combat such an opposing force?  That one, I don’t know the answer to.

This may or may not be related,  but it’s stuck in my mind because of what I wrote above.  I was in church about… oh… maybe three weeks ago, and the pastor said this…  “You always have time for what you love.”

Yikes!  Think about that one for a second.  We may say we love God but we find reasons to put him aside to do things of no significance.  We find reasons to not read our Bibles, go to church, or do our devotions.  How can we say we love God when we dedicate hours and hours an hours to our jobs that have only earthly significance, but yet we give so little time to the only thing that has a heavenly and eternal significance?

And I suppose there’s the answer.  Give God the time he needs deserves, and he can and will help in the fight.  The attack is on, who’s side are you on?