Our best days

I just read a story about Christians who knew without a doubt they would be severely beaten because of their outspoken witness and worship for Jesus...but they did it anyway. They formed a circle...joining hand in hand and sang this hymn,

The best days of our life are the days when we can bear a cross.*

That day was the best day of their life.

May our best days come and may they come bearing a cross.

For the Name of Jesus Christ.

*Reference: Tortured for Christ by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, page 126

Our life is secondary

Hudson Taylor

"China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women … The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time—even life itself must be secondary."