Extreme Christianity For Extreme Times
It’s been a difficult yet amazing week for me. The past seven days have consisted of extremes… of extreme highs and lows in the political, economical, social, and personal world around us. Some of the extremes I have experienced for myself and some I have witnessed; nevertheless a week of extreme: life & death, heaven & hell, joy & sadness, confusion & clarity, lies & truth, faith & doubt, righteousness & unrighteousness, democracy & socialism, democracy & dictatorship, fame & obscurity, abundance & lack, wealth & poverty, moral & immoral, faith & fear, hope & despair and the Kingdom of our God & the Kingdoms of this world… etc. etc. etc.
And then I awoke this morning thinking of a quote from Samwise Gamgee… (Queue the music)
Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.
This I know… that the good in this world worth fighting for is the Goodness that came through God’s Son Jesus Christ. Knowing that in this world there would be tribulation, but to be of good cheer because He has overcome the world.
To not let our hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid, because His Peace is ours. Therefore, there’s no turning back, because we’re holding on to the Goodness of God and our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ… THE ROCK OF AGES!
It’s time right now, even more than any other time in history, TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH AND TO LAY HOLD… not only for us, but for the lost and dying world around us. The world is waiting for the Samwise Christians to rise up in this hour… The FIERCELY LOYAL, HUMBLE, OPTIMISTIC WARRIORS, who know their God, and are going to do great exploits in the EXTREME TIMES we’re living in. That is what we’re holding onto… that is what matters… and that is worth fighting for!
