But he’s so right…I don’t want to end this life and say, “boy, I got by and nothing significant happened in my life and I didn’t get hurt because I never tried to do anything for God….now, where’s my crown?!”

I can walk away from a video like this and begin imagining that the bold life will involve huge events and major work…but I am reminded that it involves just saying “yes” to the Holy Spirit as he nudges me to call someone…to walk up to someone and show them His love…to do the things nobody but God will know about. To work for the praise of One.

Thanks for always sharpening me.

-Rebekah

Hey…thanks for coming by!

I have included several of dad’s quotes from time to time. He left us with a lot of them and they still frame much of our world view.

Proverbs teaches the blessings of a father are passed to the third and fourth generations. I pray I can be a healthy part of that process for my kids and grand kids.

Appreciate you,

Ed

Thanks for joining in and sharing these provoking lyrics. We have work to for sure.

Blessings to your day!

Great challenging stuff as always. This post made me thing about a song from Susan Ashton from years ago. Here’s some of the lyrics…

‘Cause we are comfortable here in our slumber
Lullabyed by the heartbeat of God
But we can’t be alive in His number
While living in the land of Nod.

So we lie down by the light of the lamp
Unaware that there’s evil in our camp
And we snooze and we snore
And sometimes it’s so loud that we can’t hear the lion roar.

Shake it up, wake it up, turn on the light
We’ve been asleep for too long
Souls have been rusted and hearts have been turning to stone
Oh, where did we go wrong?

Thanks for the exhortation.

Don Reed

Thanks for the clarifying thought. As you say Christ came to free the captives and we read all through the new testament stuff like:

- To gain your life you must lose it.
- The last shall be first.
- To live you must die.

I like this line my dad often said:

No man is free who is a slave to his own body.

When we begin to display real power in our lives more will ask of the spirit that lies within us.

Hey…thanks for sharing Dale.

Thanks for sharing. I sense as well there is this growing interest through out the country to rediscover a passionate life in Christ. A life boldly sacrificed for a noble cause far bigger than any of us. The conference this week was filled with that spirit with over 3000 people searching for understanding and opportunity to do just that.

Let’s learn and grow together to that end. Please stay in touch.

Standing on the promises,

Ed