Day 13 - Spiritual Bondage

Ahhh... where to begin today? I think that I just want to focus on the spiritual bondage here... This is a really sad picture here... 

So look carefully at this picture. Do you see the two high towers with the ring of green lights around them? Those are Muslim prayer towers. Five times a day, from loudspeakers inside of the towers come out heathen prayers to a false god. These towers are spread all across the city of Jerusalem (predominately in the Arab quarter). Every day we hear these prayers that just sound dark... demonic... and evil. When we hear them, we are so much more reminded that we are not in a battle of flesh and blood, but in a spiritual battle! 

Usually those towers are not as close together to each other as these two are. Are you wondering why these two are so close? Well, the reason lies right in the middle of the towers. That far left hand side of wall (blocked by a perpendicular wall) is the Western Wall (commonly called the Wailing Wall). The Muslims did not want the Jews to enjoy having their wall to pray at so they placed their towers as close to it as possible. It's not visible in the picture, but there is another tower a little way past that far tower. Crazy isn't it? 

As you can see, these towers are all over this city... something that always reminds us of the need to be constantly in prayer. If these people are ritually in prayer five times a day, what does that say about us who may be praying maybe just once or twice a day!?! 

Dear God, those people are so lost, and yet they have such a fervor to serve their "god" because they believe that it's the way to salvation. May we, knowing the whole truth, never lose that fire in our relationship with You! It's embarrassing that a religion that hates the whole world can out do a RELATIONSHIP that can LOVE the whole world!! 

Think about that for the day...

Love,

V