Matthew 10:18-20 English Standard Version

18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 

Are we there yet?

The early church was met with great resistance and were persecuted to death, not literally but actually. Early Christ were put to death for their faith.

Puritans fled to the eastern shores of the new world in order to worship as they chose. Persecution did not stop with the first century church. It changed faces, presented itself in different forms, different reasons, and different tactics, but it continues today.

My first inclination about what the Lord had to say through me today came from thinking that the title would be called “Today”. I had a verse in mind. It was this.

Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

Yesterday when I thought about today’s devotional I was distracted by events of yesterday. I left my quiet time and attended to my responsibilities, to help where I was needed in the moment.

Having left yesterday behind, knowing I did everything required of me, I am now free to listen to the Lord today and speak for Him in those things that He wants addressed.

There has been an assault on free speech of late. It has not gone unnoticed in some circles and for some of us it feels like someone else’s problem. I detest fate speech but to assail their right to speak, I am making an argument that if anyone says sharing the gospel is hate speech, then I endanger my right to spread the gospel liberally.

There are places in the world where my gospel cannot be heard because those citizens live in a closed society where internet access is forbidden by strict laws and penalties for violation. They do not have freedom of speech, they are allowed to believe only what the government controlled media puts out. They lie to their people.

Who is the author of lies?

When you exercise your freedom of information do you hear lies? Do you know the truth when you hear it? The only source of truth is the Spirit of Truth. Seek Him for answers.