Proof The Bible Is True

I often wonder about our persecuted brothers and sisters: do they struggle with things westerners usually struggle with? Do they struggle with drugs or lust or depression or alcoholism or laziness like we might? They’re humans too, the temptations are evident everywhere in the world, why wouldn’t they struggle with it too? Working at VOM, I’ve heard powerful stories of people in cultures that are also saturated in drugs, alcohol and promiscuity who turn their lives to Christ and are then persecuted. But their eyes are focused completely on Christ, it’s as if their past struggles with these addictive things are completely gone. How is that?

Now I’m not saying that persecuted Christians are “super-Christians” and don’t internally struggle with these things. And I’m not saying that they are so super that they might not succumb to the temptations of this world. But, I’ve noticed a pattern of Christians that are so focused on Christ and have a real eternal perspective, that they don’t follow the world. And these people are facing losing their homes, losing their jobs, losing their lives or the lives of their families.

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