Pray for the Library
If we want to win this battle at the library, we need to join together in prayer.
Pray for the Library
Luke 6:24-28:
24 “But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25
Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26
Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Christ commands us to love those that persecute us. I’m not very good at it myself. Of all the commandments God gives to us, I rather lay my life down than love my enemy. Recently I’ve started attending my local library board meetings to challenge the Library Staff, Director, and Board members over their policies. Their policies purchase the most offensive material in our culture in books or any media–that being child porn. However, this isn’t all we find. We have books which glorify bestiality, incest, rape, and pedophilia.
In standing up, I’ve made some enemies. They talked about me on Facebook behind my back and they have insulted me in meetings and I returned an insult to them. I wasn’t obeying this commandment from God. I realized they were people who you couldn’t actually speak to—they weren’t capable of listening, of being reasonable, or understanding a different perspective.
God calls on us to understand their perspective, just in case we are wrong. However, perverting a child will never be right. There is no moral justification for what they zealously bring into our communities and libraries. They know there will be vulnerable children from traumatized homes coming to the library as an escape and these materials will get into their hands and traumatize the young children.
I have decided for my part that it is hard to love them unless I’m also praying for them. I pray daily for the Executive Director and two of the more vocal community members, including the woman who insulted me and I insulted back. My prayers for them are simple. I ask that God takes away their support from organizations like the ALA and MLA (who push this material for radical Marxist purposes). I pray God creates disunity between them so that they can’t stand each other. I pray God makes them lonely in their fight and leaves them no respite or place to hide. I then pray God gives them one refuge–in Him alone. At the meetings, these people fight and scream and grunt and moan when we stand up and speak the truth—it reveals how lost they are and how much they need Christ. Christ is our only redeemer, for them and for us.
Praying for them is teaching me to have no fear of them. They are not in control of their own lives, but they are slaves to a demonic master. They live in pain, regret, fear, and anxiety and can’t find the peace of God. My prayers for them are slowly teaching me love and to remove anger from the equation when I think of them. I will not give up my fight at the library and maybe, if you will join your prayers to mine, God will answer our prayers and God will convict them of their sins. Maybe they will surrender to Him and then they will find peace from their demons. Maybe they will become our fellow believers who will join us in Heaven one day.
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