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MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS May 17, 1998 Vol. III Number 14
Fred Craddock, in an address to ministers, caught the practical implications of consecrations: to give my life for Christ appears glorious. To pour myself out for others…to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom - I’ll do it. I’m read, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory.
We think giving our all to the Lord is like taking a $1,000 bill and laying it on the table - “here’s my life, Lord, I’m giving it all.”
But the reality for most of us is that he sends us to the bank and has us cash in the $1,000 for quarters. We go through life putting out 25 cents here and 50 cents there. Listen to the neighbor kid’s troubles instead of saying, “Get lost.” Go to a committee meeting. Give a cup of water to a shaky old man in a nursing home.
Usually giving out life to Christ isn’t glorious. It’s done in all those little acts of love, 25 cents at a time. It would be easy to go out in a flash of glory; it’s harder to live the Christian life little b little over the long haul.
“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5
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