Very true. Believers will face hardship but will endure.
padremike wrote:
I too am becoming more convinced that recovery might now be out of our reach. It's devastating to realize we deserve it, we brought it on ourselves, we sat comfortably back & provided little resistance to the evil that was growing almost exponentially. Our arrogance and self-assurance that we were indestructible blinded us to our weakness and made us vulnerable to the Left, most of whom don't even realize they're cultural Marxist or at the very least subscribe to its agenda and philosophy. I don't know, Jim, are the majority of them consciously immoral or unconsciously amoral? I don't suppose it really matters, the end results are exactly the same. The upside is that the faithful Church always survived although many Christians suffered martyrdom. There is great sadness in watching America fail. However, the faithful will persevere, that's our strength and our final end is not dependent on whether America fails or survives but rather that we keep the faith uncompromised. There's so much I don't know but I know this to be true; Persevere!
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