It ain’t anything unless you give it away

Excuse me for my slang title above. However, I must confess I really feel this way about this one huge thing. And so I’ll share it with you all. I just got finished watching a couple movies (well, between yesterday and today). I watched “Fireproof” at home and “Taken” at the local AMC 9 in town here earlier today. Both have distinctly different central themes (the first being about saving a marriage and the 2nd about saving a daughter), however they both hammer home how much work it takes to truly love someone. As cliche’ as this sounds, they both reinforced commitment and endurance. Both main characters rise to the occasion, they rise up to the challenge before them, and they come up huge in the end. At critical times in both films, they both realize what they need to fight for. And the most awesome thing was that they didn’t. They could have buckled under the enormous pressure, they could have gave into what this world says is alright, but they didn’t. They endured, they persisted, they kicked some awesome tail if you know what I mean to save the relationship that meant the most to them. 

God’s mandate for his believers is to press on. To endure through the wickedness of this world, and to set our sights on Eternity as we bring people heavenward. I pray daily for you Friends! That we might encourage one another in this battle. That we might lift each other up. That we might lay our lives down for one another. And in doing so, pleasing our Father in Heaven. 

In His Dust,

Josh