Mark 8:34-38 Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
This is the key. This is the issue to govern your lives today. You live in an evil world. You live in a world in which many are choosing to worship your enemy. You live in a world in which most of my children worship self – self gratification, self glorification, self involvement – self. Many have been fooled by a false gospel to believe that they are worshipping me, that they are obeying me, that they are following me – yet they really only worship themselves and their lives. False prophets and teachers abound. Be aware and be on guard. But for those of my children that still know and acknowledge Truth, for those of you who still worship me (no matter how imperfectly), for those of you whose motives are still pure – this is the key. Your soul and your willingness to acknowledge me to a fallen world. Time is short. Many have already and many more will perish – eternally. Will you witness to them the Truth? Will you stand for me? Will you brave the insults, persecutions, even harm that will come from that? For, it is not only your souls that hang in the balance, but those of a fallen world.
Amanuensis 