Darrell W Johnson

    Will the churches of our time stand when the pressure increases?  Will you, will I, stand as the test get tougher?  The only clue we have is how we are doing in the lesser tests that come our way now.
    "I know your pressure," says the Lord.
    It seems only fair to conclude by telling you that there is a way out of the pressure.  Just don't get serious about loving Jesus.  Just go with the flow of the culture.  Just settle for a comfortable, run-of-the-mill, watered-down kind of discipleship--"Christianity Lite."  Just settle for a status-quo-blessing kind of discipleship.  And there will be no pressure.  And there will also be no passion.
    "I know your pressure," says the One who loves us.  In the nature of things he cannot lift it.  Sustain us in it, yes.  Use it for his glory, yes.  But lift it, no.  For his presence is the reason the pressure comes!  When I remember that I can keep going.  And even do so with a strange sort of joy.

Discipleship on the Edge: An Expository Journey Through the Book of Revelation, Darrell W Johnson, p.74