Where’s The Fire

A quote from an article in Newsmax, dated September 7, 2010, an unidentified writer said: "Muslims consider the Quran to be the word of God and insist that it be treated with the utmost respect, along with any printed material containing its verses or the name of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad. Any intentional damage or show of disrespect to the Quran is deeply offensive." Wow, believe it or not, I think that is great. Don't get me wrong, I believe that the Muslim religion is a false religion, but their dedication is awesome. In reality they put Christians to shame when it comes to their dedication to their religion. The Muslims have a fire burning in them about their religion that Christians had at one time, but seem to have lost it along the way. Our Holy Book, the Bible, can be desecrated anywhere and we do or say nothing about it

Let's look back a little. One athiest woman was able to get the Bible taken out of our schools. What did we as Christians do? We whimpered and went to sit down and shut up. One woman subjected herself to the humiliation of being used to get abortion legalized, and again what did Christians do? We whimpered and went to sit down and shut up. A very small minority of our Country decided that homosexuality was just an alternative lifestyle, so once again what did the Christians do? You guest it, we whimpered, and went to sit down and shut up.

Our Founding Fathers put the Bible in our schools as a standard for text books to live up to, as a model for our morals to be taught from. Our founding documents are filled with mention of Christ and Christianity and the Judeo/Christian lifestyle. Our Founding Fathers writings clearly indicate that they intended for the United States of America to be a Christian nation. Don't take my word for it, take some time to read the early writings of our leaders who formed this Nation and you will see that it is true. They had a fire inside them when it came to not only freedom, but also when it came to the Word of God.... the Bible.

We can move from early preachers like Wakefield who lit the fire in America to preachers like Finney, Moody, and Wigglesworth who revived the fire unashamedly proclaiming the Gospel and the whole Word of God.....the Bible. Then we had preachers like Graham and Roberts who continued proclaiming the truths of the Bible. Today we seem to have watered down the message of the Bible leaving the fire behind. Without that fire there is no dedication to the Word of God..... the Bible. We as Americans started whimpering because there was no fire inside us.

We need to take note of the fire inside the Muslims that makes them highly offended when the Koran is abused or even talked negatively about their holy book.
It seems to me that the best way to ignite that fire inside us is to get as much of the Word of God...... the Bible inside us as quickly as possible.
When the Word of God....... the Bible becomes precious to us again, we will be a force to be reckoned with.