While we are absorbed with our daily issues, Christians around the world are being severely persecuted. We are living in one of the worst times of persecution in Christian history. In our world we keep up with politics, the stock market, sports, and tons of trivia, but are quite oblivious to what our Christian brothers and sisters endure on a daily basis in their world: hated, banned, beaten, starved, and killed. They are hunted by police, tortured by terrorists, and turned in by neighbors. We think persecution is when someone disagrees with us; we have no idea! Wake up! The persecuted church clings to the cross of the persecuted Christ. We pray for them today. We pray for their endurance, for their witness and that their persecution would end.
“Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—of whom the world was not worthy.” (Hebrews 11:35b–38a ESV)
