No Persecution for the American Christian

Have we become a culture of hearing without actually hearing?  I have a feeling most folks are in data overload with overabundance of information available to us.  They agree with things they really have not given much consideration to see if they truly agree with it at their core. 

Is people's acceptance of what you are saying merely a knee jerk reaction meant to appease or subdue so that they can get on to weightier matters such as Facebook stati? 

I am finding it more and more difficult to find people with more than surface level conviction for what they profess to believe.  Has faith become no more than a choice between what adornments we might wear out for the day?
Are we ready to let society, family traditions, or fear dictate how we follow the God we say we believe in?  And this is not even close to a time of persecution for the believer in America.  I would say believers in this country are celebrated almost for having a faith system they follow.

No, American Christian.  You are not persecuted.  Yet Scripture says you will be for His name.  Does it bother you that you are not?  Could it be that you aren't really following Him according to how His word says you should?
I know how you can bring about persecution as a believer: just stop eating pork bacon and shellfish, keep Friday evening sundown to Saturday evening sundown holy and rest from your occupation, put aside the idolatrous feasts of Christmas, Easter, and Halloween, and start celebrating Biblical (actually in His word) Feasts like Passover, Sukkot, and Hanukkah.

Oh yeah.  That should do it.  Funny thing is that the persecution doesn't come mostly from your unbelieving friends but the believing ones.  Seems like this is a repeat from the 1st Century when a certain sect of the Jews, the Pharisees, persecuted the new believers who were keeping the same Feasts and Festivals as they were yet were claiming Yeshua as their Messiah.

Their salvation came through Yeshua and it led to obedience in Torah and the blessings that affords.  Torah observance is the works that go with faith James speaks about.  It is the fruit of a good tree that Yeshua speaks of.  Since He is the living Torah, then observance is obeying Him and thus showing oneself evident as loving Him and not a liar as John says:

1 John 2:3-6
³ By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; ⁵ but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: ⁶ the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked..