Have you ever examined your motives and activities in the light of the above question? Are the things you do daily in keeping with the sacrifice your Savior made for you? We, Christians, need to examine ourselves in this light. One thing is for sure: Many in our religion spend far too much time playing golf or bridge or watching spectator sports and very little time in self-sacrificing activities for the Christ!!
Said Musa is a 45 year old Afghan who has been in a Kabul, Afghanistan prison since May 2010. He has been beaten, and tortured for converting to Christianity; and now he is being denied the services of a lawyer in Afghan courts, where he will likely be condemned to death according to sharia law.
Another Afghan Christian, Shoib Assadullah, age 25, is in prison in northern Afghanistan for giving a New Testament to another Afghan, who turned him in to the authorities. Assadullah has been locked up since October 21 for that serious crime; he has reportedly not been tortured.
All this is going on despite the fact that Afghanistan is a signatory to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulating religious freedom, including the freedom to change one’s faith.
www.compassdirect.org/english/country/23987/29549/
If any of my readers are convicted by the above story, I would suggest that they read a new book: RADICAL by David Platt. This book challenges Christians to wake up, trade in false values rooted in the American dream, and embrace the fact that God blesses each of us for a global purpose…. This is a must read for every believer!
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