All men will hate you because of
me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. Matthew 10:22
There is a plain and evident fact in
genuine Christianity that is often overlooked by eager evangelists bent on
getting results: that to accept Christ it is necessary that we reject whatever
is contrary to Him!
Let us not be shocked by the suggestion
that there are disadvantages to the life in Christ. Everyone who has lived for
Christ in a Christless world has suffered some losses and endured some pains
that he could have avoided by the simple expedient of laying down his cross.
The contemporary moral climate does not
favor a faith as tough and fibrous as that taught by our Lord and His apostles.
The delicate, brittle saints being produced in our religious hothouses today
are hardly to be compared with the committed, expendable believers who once
gave their witness among men. And the fault lies with our leaders. They are too
timid to tell the people all the truth. They are now asking men to give to God
that which costs them nothing!
When will Christians learn that to love
righteousness it is necessary to hate sin? that to accept Christ it is
necessary to reject self? that to follow the good way we must flee from evil?
that a friend of the world is an enemy of God? that God allows no twilight zone
between two altogethers where the fearful and the doubting may take refuge at
once from hell to come and the rigors of present discipline?
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