No wound. No scar? Yet as the Master shall the servant be, And pierced are the feet that follow Me, But thine are whole, Can he have followed far who has no wound, No scar?

Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

It is a great thing to die; and, when flesh and heart fail, to have God for the strength of our heart, and our portion forever. I know whom I have believed, and he is able to keep that which I have committed against that great day. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me that day. 28

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Now when you can no longer be active, and infirmities press upon you, all that God requires of you is to trust Him.

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You. ISAIAH 26 : 3 (AMP)

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.