lifeasmission

Stage as Cross

October 24, 2006

I was listening to a message the other day that inspired me to pray…

“Father, I pray that if you ever give me a stage I will prepared, I will even expect, to be crucified because of it.  If I am too weak to follow Jesus to Calvary, if I forget that the Kingdom is to be entered through many hardships, if I am unwilling to experience death that others may experience life – may I suffer a life of mediocrity and ordinariness, but never make a mockery of you as my Lord by encouraging and perpetuating comfortable Christianity – mine or that of others.”

This is a humbling request and it scares me, but it also excites me and restores my passion.

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