“Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated – since you yourselves are in the body also.” Hebrews 13:3
Lately I’ve read books and articles about the persecuted church. I’m always shocked when I read these things, because Christianity in America is so easy. It’s difficult to conceive of our brothers and sisters being treated so cruelly in other places in the world. The concept is foreign to our existence. For now anyway.
Everytime I read of someone persecuted for faith in Christ, it grips my heart, because I know that I have not remembered the persecuted church faithfully in prayer as I should. It’s not that I don’t care. I just don’t remember.
But what if I was imprisoned with them? What if I was tortured with them? Then this issue of the persecuted church would be in the very forefront of my mind at all times, because of my involvement in it.
The reality is, that because I am part of the body of Christ, I am involved in the persecuted church. They are my brothers and sisters, beloved ones of God. So I am asking God to help me remember them, as if chained with them, that I may offer prayers to God on their behalf.
He is my Delight 