The struggle...

The following excerpt from a devotional sent to me recently reminds me of one of my favorite posts:

"Persecuted Christians know they are in a fight. Every day they struggle. Not being conscious of a daily struggle may be sure sign that one is losing the battle of life... They should have struggles if they wish to please God. But so many Christians in the world today seem surprised at the language of struggle today."

Romans 5 :

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we^[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we^[b] boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we^[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope.  

Francis Schaeffer once mentioned, “the god of personal peace and affluence,” where we don’t mind what goes on in the world so long as our space and prosperity is not affected? 

This is certainly prominent in contemporary christian settings. It's almost as if the church of our age forgets the fundamental beliefs of the faith, the foundation of which is Christ, especially the Blessed Hope. We think, or rather, are sure that Jesus isn't coming back in our lifetime for some reason. So we adopt the newest acronyms the WORLD offers us, something like "YOLO", standing for "you only live once". Not only that, we avoid talking about things like the Apocalypse, the 2nd coming, the Rapture, the New Jerusalem, just because it makes us feel uncomfortable or because the book of revelation is "allegorical". We have so many reasons why we shouldn't live like the disciples admonished us to-like it is the last day- either because it's crazy or because it's impractical. 

I pose the same question again, found in this post :

http://lastdaysdisciple.blogspot.com/2010/10/friendship-with-world-what.html