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CHRISTIANITY
BY REFLEX (Contiinuation)
Acts 20:24
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if
only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me
–the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.
The
great French philosopher Montaigne put it this way, “A man who has not directed
his life as a whole toward a definite goal cannot possibly set his particular
actions in order.
The
archer must know what he is aiming at, and then set his hand, his bow, his
strings, his arrow and his movements for that goal.
Our
plans go astray because they have no directions and no aim. No wind serves the man who has no port of
destination.”
Let me ask you some questions?
Can
you shoot straight
with a crooked arrow?
I’m an old pilot who flew back in the time of wooden propellers and
I always knew you couldn’t fly too well with a warped and imperfect prop. Fact
is, if too warped it will shake loose and the plane will soon be making an
emergency powerless landing.
The
book of Proverbs (Proverbs 29:18) shouts with profound simplicity the following
truth. “Where there is no vision, the
people perish.”
Kagawa, working in the slums of Japan and being called “Christ’s
fool” had a vision.
Martin
Luther stood strong and tall with his beliefs as he said “Here I stand.” He had a vision.
Roger Bacon, carrying out his scientific experiments despite the
threats of the inquisition, had a vision.
Paul
Bunyan, writing “Pilgrim’s Progress” in a filthy jail, had a vision.
Our Founding Fathers had a vision.
Those who marched with Martin Luther King in Birmingham and beyond had a vision.
It’s
been sixty years but I still remember the story. It was all over the newspapers at the
time. A man and woman had begun early in
the evening to argue. At 3 AM, weary and worn, they were still
bickering.
Finally
the man went to sleep.
At
which time the woman got a gun and shot him dead.
Her
first visitor in jail was the father of the man she had killed, and his first words
were, “I forgive you.”
The next day it made the front pages.
Had he stood on the
jail house steps and vowed vengeance, it might have made the last page of the
newspaper or buried opposite the obituaries.
Or received no notice
at all.
But Christian
forgiveness under such circumstances?
Well now, when a Christian acts like it - that is news.
The
agnostic H. G. Wells wrote the following, “Christianity will never work because
Christ is too big for the little men and women he must work with.”
The sad fact is that many people never really expect Christians to
act like it.
The Prodigal Son finally got it right. Filled with remorse. Finally able
and willing to face what he had become and what he must undo, he simply said,
“Make me even as a hired servant. Make
me everything but what I was.”
One
modern day philosopher put it well, “As a Christian, it is not your job to
“whittle” sticks. You are called to build temples.”
(Edgar De-Witt)
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