This week was talking about
the persecution of the Christians. There are negative effects of persecution
and that is the death of Christians all over the world. There are people who
were fed by the beast using the Rome Arena, they will just use Christians as an
entertainment or a show. People cannot freely worship Jesus because if they
were know surely they will be in prison or even killed. This is the negative
side of persecution but the there is also positive side because God is in
control of everything and even though Christians were persecuted, God used it
to spread the Gospel. Because Christians were scattered because of persecution,
they did not live in one country and city but they were living all over the
world. They have lived a life that’s reflects Christ and because of this people
came to know Christ. Not just this also their faith became strong and God uses
the hardship to make our faith genuine (Jas. 1:3).
I learned that this is
the most difficult time of Christians because of the rampant persecutions. They
have no freedom in their religion or what, how they worship. People were afraid
and somewhat discouraged because of the hardship they were facing but through
these their faith were strengthen. In that time being a Christian is scary and
I learned that I am blessed that today in the Philippines Christianity is not
persecuted. There are still many countries that Christianity is not allowed and
Christians are being put to prison and the worst is they will kill them.
I should be thankful
to God that He has put me in this society where Christians have freedom to
worship God. I should also think of other Christians all over the world that
they are hindered by many people to practice their faith. I will grab tis opportunity
that God has given me and that is to freely declare his Gospel that God loves
all the people and He wanted to have a personal relationship to Him.
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