religiousaffections

September 7, 2009

This portion from a book I recently read has been sitting on my desk for a couple months.  Each morning it stares me in the face.  Just like anything that sits in the same place, it often gets overlooked.  This morning it didn’t. I can feel the consumerism in me rising as I know there are Labor Day sales to be had today.  Today, this familiar paragraph brought me back to reality:

“Think of a hostile government in a country where Christianity is outlawed, and an agent of that government drags you into court and accuses you of loving Jesus and following him. Could your checkbook and your credit cards be summoned as evidence against you? If those auditors examined your finances would they find proof of your love of God? If our vacation and restaurant bills exceed our giving, what might that signify? What does that signify?”