You have probably participated in singing the song, “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.” Maybe the group you were in used the verse that goes:
The world behind me,
The Cross before me…
The song comes from the predominately Christian hill tribes in the far northeastern area of India, typically referred to as Garo. There were several waves of missionaries who went there. You can find several different stories about the origin of the song, and they are quite varied. So the actual composition is lost in legend, but the song reflects a resolve in the face of persecution, about which those Christians could tell us a thing or two.
Yet you know already in your heart that most people who mouth the words of that song have no real concept for what they are saying. Teenagers especially are at a time in their lives when a radical commitment to something beckons them. For them, it’s not a question of sincerity. It’s as real as anything else they know.
And it’s not as if they never experience any persecution for their faith. Our society has created a subtle system of rejection for genuine commitment to Christ. The problem is that a huge portion of American Christians have faced this, and the real danger is not their lack of commitment, but the vast layer of substitution for the genuine power of conviction. They aren’t taught conviction, but to work this all from their minds. Intellectual belief is substituted for conviction, and there is a heavy curriculum in apologetics to ensure it all sounds logical.
Between the Zionists and globalists, we are headed for a more overt persecution. People of genuine faith will be under pressure to compromise with the prevailing definition of “Christian” religion. Overt persecution always shakes loose the fakes. People who sing that song may not be truly rooted in the faith that generated those words, and it is they who will hold the institutions.
Radix Fidem doesn’t make you better than other folks, but it does tend to demand enough from you that fakery becomes difficult. Prepare your hearts for persecution, folks.
