“That in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Php 1:20). In the same spirit, Jim Elliot prayed: “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.” He grieved at the theoretical Christianity he saw everywhere; people debating theory but missing the most obvious and plainly-spoken commands of the once-crucified and now triumphant Companion of all those who walked the way of the Cross. With deep feeling he wrote: “It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God’s power would become known among us.”
Today’s Reading: Mark 15-16; Luke 1 Memorize: Ephesians 1:20