Abiding in Christ. Walking by faith.

Tag: persecution

Yes, Lord

Take a deep breath. 
“Yes, Lord.”
Then step out by faith.
	Walk into unknown waters.
Enter cross-currents of
something new.

“To live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). Paul’s words help us stay the course. In life. And death.

October 2000. The phone rang at our home in Virginia.

A friend living in Karachi was calling.

“Ed is in very serious condition. Please pray.”

The one who speaks truth finds himself walled in. Weighed down. Worn out.

No hope. Only the crooked path. And a deep pit. Face in the gravel.

Affliction. With no end in sight.

This. When he’s fearlessly made known God’s ways. And wept over the judgment of a disobedient people.

Jeremiah laments.