does the testimony of the men living today strive you for some change in your life. make you want to get off your own butt and open the door to find sunshine on cloudy days. and make an opportunity a dream. or is it the walk in a cemetery reading the graves or opening an old book make you starve for such daring feats. i feel like both have each of its merit.
truthfully, when i read of dead men. i get chills. i am reading about jim elliot a second time in a book called "the shadow of the almighty" it is about his life and testimony. jim elliot wasn't your normal kid, God called him early to a life of reckless hope and abandoning the safe christian life. jim took other brothers and their wives down to a jungle to speak the gospel to a cannibalistic tribe and learn their ways and eventually bring them jesus. jim ended up dying along with the other men. leaving the women and children and what you thought was a lost cause. (read his story to know more)
but we have another dead man we can all look too who left a cross and a tomb to save all mankind. Jesus the son of man. the son of God.
this is where it conflicts me. how often do the christians note. i am so thankful that Jesus died for my sins. but we forget that after he left us living. he sent his Spirit to live in us.
where does that leave us. where does that leave me.
tonight is another night. where i am desperate to know the man in the letters that were left by dead men. to inspire me to live. they knew something that started after he left them. something must be done.
read matthew 16:24.
does that inspire you to live. or inspire you to die.
i love you,
stephenjoseph
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