ONE SOLITARY LIFE
Here is a man who
was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in an obscure village. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was
thirty, and then for three years he was an itinerant teacher.
He never wrote a
book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never traveled, except in his infancy, more
than two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He never did one of the things that usually
accompanies greatness. He had no
credentials but himself.
While he was still a
young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies. He went through a mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two
thieves. His executioners gambled for
the only piece of property he had on earth, his seamless robe. When he was dead, he was taken down from the
cross and laid in a borrowed grave through the courtesy of a friend.
Twenty centuries
have come and gone, and today he is the centerpiece of the human race and the
leader of all human progress. I am well
within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the
navies that ever were built, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the
kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon
this earth as powerfully as has this one solitary personality.
– Author Unknown
Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above
all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.
Maranatha!
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