What are we without a struggle?  Inadequately tested, uninspired, weak or is it the nature of the highest man to live the “uneventful” or “easy” life?  Shall I preach uncontested, believing myself beyond contest or does my faith increase with suitable and active resistance or questioning?  In life, are things some how improved, sharpened, increased or strengthened by overcoming circumstances?  Of course, but it must also be mentioned that challenge may also reveal inadequate preparation, character or resolve and bring about or catalyze failure.  Is then the polarity of challenge determined by the perspective of the participant?   Perhaps immediately, but there may also be an agreed public interpretation which differs from the participant.

What is the purpose of this challenge, Father?  Is it a test of my love?  Perhaps my endurance and capacity to remain devoted under unfavorable circumstance.  Do I resist any challenges or am I best suited to volunteer myself to the difficulty armed by the knowledge that improvement is in effect, inevitable?  How may I win by confronting those I view are in direct conflict with your word?  Am I required to combat them or to “challenge” them on the merits of their doctrine or am I free to look to the Holy Spirit for direction and absent that prompting to avoid a potentially combustible conversation?  Seeing the Apostles directly confronted these faux teachers and preachers is this the cited example for all disciples?  Doesn’t that require that I appear directly intolerant and remove any camouflage or position behind which I was in relative safety?  Should I care, truly care when men and women entertain the ideals of charlatans?  Ought I care enough to intervene, or is it strictly my responsibility to love and allow them to make their free will choice as I have made?  Perhaps I am merely to adequately state the truth of Your Word and let the chips fall as they may?  Is it my nature to confront the challenge or is it within your will that I do so as directive?

Father, I tire so of their mockery, their lust for easy living and their quick desire to follow after every new age ideal.  Is this truly my heart or is this really happening as result of the times in which we reside?  It appears that they have closed their hearts to sound doctrine.  I do not wish to make that observation prematurely, as the implications are monstrous.  I seek your guidance Holy Spirit.  Do we in fact live in that age when men’s hearts have grown so cold, so desirous of their personal satisfaction that their ears tickle to hear the desires of their lasciviousness? I must assume that even if the answer to that question is true that there remains the possibility to reach them with the Gospel or you would have already called us home.  But I need to know if it is my lot in life to confront these false teachers or to beckon the people away from their siren marketing of prostituted Christianity.  I cry when I see them embrace the lies perpetrated by fancy men having rewritten the faith to their own entreat.  Are we in the times of prophets and men of God who challenge the wicked and so doing allow public observance of your Glory?  If I am to challenge then I pray that I clearly understand that directive and stand resolute in strength and courage even to the penalty of life lost, but if it be somehow a measure of my own ego then please counsel me to refrain, sit and listen with love and gentility.

I love and praise you Father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ my King.