What if?

What if one day you had to get up and flee with your children because it was no longer safe to be a Christian where you live?

What if you had to leave without a car or any more money than what you have in your home right at this minute?  What if there were no family where you live to run to.. because they were forced to flee, too?  What if you had to leave your home and familiar belongings to take only what you can carry?

What if you desperately needed to get your children hundreds of miles away to another country.. where a refugee camp of too few tents and blankets, with deseases and not enough food to go around, was the only place to go?  What if thee were no police department to protect you.. or social service organizations to help you?

What if you were a fleeing Christian with millions of brothers and sisters in Christ across an ocean.. people who have never gone hungry and who practice the same faith you do, but  in complete freedom?  What if these people set great score by their Sunday sermons about "brotherly love" and talk about being persecuted for their faith.. while you are literally living what they can only talk about?

What if these people went about their comfortable daily lives, well fed and prosperous.. totally oblivious to what you're going through? Sure, they hear about it all the time in church or from glimpses of late night pleadings from charities before they hurriedly change the channel on their television, but.. what if they won't lift a finger to help?

What if you and they stand before the judgment seat of Christ someday?  Will He hold them blameless?  Will He say to them, "Good and faithful servant; you fed My sheep well." Or will He say, "You bought designer clothing and new electronics, and walked away from the table full to the brim while your brother starved.  Your sister was fleeing for her life, and that of her children, while you ran to the mall.  You said you were My servant, calling on Me to answer your prayers.. and yet you never heard the suffering of the most needy and oppressed among My body of believers.  Get away; I never knew thee."

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